The number in internet encryption suspected of being an NSA backdoor for 25 years was actually a timestamp from a Saturday in 1997. Claude deduced it from the quirk…

One of the encryption methods used to protect internet communications is called P-256. Inside P-256, there is a 20-byte ...
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Claude cracks 25-year cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes: NIST curve seeds traced to timestamps and a random number generator

Anthropic announced on October 16 that its AI model Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery in under half an hour, tracing the origin ...

The Flaws in Random Numbers That Confused the Scientific Community

Though they looked random, there was a patternLast time, I introduced the heights that random numbers have reached. However, ...