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AI Security & Privacy · October 17, 2026

Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

Anthropic’s Claude solved a decades-old cryptography mystery involving unexplained seeds used in NIST digital-signature curves. It determined that the seeds came from a basic C random-number generator, making an intentional backdoor less likely.

AI Pillar Hub files a short pointer. The reporting lives at the source, The Decoder.

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