Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic)

Anthropic's Claude has reportedly traced the NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator. This discovery challenges long-standing suspicions that the NSA had implemented a backdoor in the algorithm. The mystery surrounding the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards, which has persisted for decades, now appears to be resolved, with the explanation being "just timestamps."