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Anthropic engineers using Claude figured out where the seeds for the “NIST Curves” came from. Full article at
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https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (public domain, nicely)</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Turns out it was lrand48 seeded with a then-current timestamp.</span></div>
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