
🚨 Claude cracked a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery in under 30 minutes! A groundbreaking discovery in cryptography: Claude is said to have traced the origin of the initial values provided by the NSA for the P-256 elliptic curve—a widely used cryptographic standard—to a random number generator from the 1990s. P-256 underpins numerous security mechanisms in TLS/HTTPS, digital signatures, and authentication systems. The origin of this curve’s parameters has long fascinated researchers, particularly regarding whether they were chosen entirely at random.
