{"slug": "cryptographic-conspiracy-bench", "title": "Cryptographic Conspiracy Bench", "summary": "Anthropic's Claude recovered the generation process behind the NIST prime-curve seeds, providing evidence against a backdoor in ECDSA curve origins, according to the newly published Cryptographic Conspiracy Bench. The benchmark counts documented instances where AI models resolve a cryptographic conspiracy by proving it, disproving it, or expanding it, and groups scores by the company behind the model using the same five-company lineup as FelonyBench. Only public results are counted, and Anthropic holds the single documented resolution on the board.", "body_md": "# Cryptographic Conspiracy Bench\n\nEncryption works. Or does it?\n\n| Documented cryptographic conspiracy resolutions |  |  |  |  | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Company | Resolved | Description | Date | Sources | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Anthropic | 1 | ECDSA Curve Origins Claude recovered the generation process behind the NIST prime-curve seeds. Evidence against a backdoor |  | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins) [Filippo Valsorda](https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/)  | \n\n## Methodology\n\nThe **Cryptographic Conspiracy Bench** counts documented instances where AI models help resolve a cryptographic conspiracy, either by proving it, disproving it, or expanding the conspiracy in new directions.\n\nScores are grouped by the company behind the model, using the same five-company lineup as [FelonyBench](https://www.felonybench.com/). Results must be public to be counted.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cryptographic-conspiracy-bench", "canonical_source": "https://cryptoconspiracybench.org/", "published_at": "2026-10-16 22:20:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-16 22:24:31.596300+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Cryptographic Conspiracy Bench", "FelonyBench", "NIST", "ECDSA", "Filippo Valsorda"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cryptographic-conspiracy-bench", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cryptographic-conspiracy-bench.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cryptographic-conspiracy-bench.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cryptographic-conspiracy-bench.jsonld"}}