An AI model named Claude has successfully reconstructed the origins of numerical seeds used in widely adopted security standards, resolving a long-standing mystery about their creation.

Claude did not break elliptic curve cryptography, did not compute anyone's private key, and did not render TLS or Bitcoin ...

An unusual piece of cryptography history has gained an answer. Anthropic says Claude reconstructed how the original seed ...

In October 2026 an Anthropic employee posed the problem to an internal research version of Claude without mentioning the ...

Anthropic's Claude AI solved a 25-year NSA encryption mystery, tracing cryptographic curve seeds to a 1990s random-number generator seeded by timestamps.

Anthropic says the seeds for NIST's standard elliptic curves were generated from Unix timestamps in 1997–1998. Filippo ...

Anthropic says an internal Claude research model has traced the origins of five NSA-supplied elliptic curve seeds in under 30 ...

Claude AI has reconstructed the origins of unexplained numbers used in widely adopted security standards, and supplied by the ...

The NumPy 2.5.0 release notes state that the return values of eig and eigvals will always be complex, and that ...

Rather than hunt for a secret phrase, Claude reasoned about how the curve-generating software of the 1990s actually worked.

Anthropic said its Claude AI model solved a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery in under 30 minutes by tracing unexplained numbers in a widely ...

On August 1, 1997, a mathematics book was published by Maruzen.“Introduction to Number Theory Algorithms and Elliptic Curve ...