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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
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Hacker News | Oct 16, 2026 | ahlCVA
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Most researchers trusted the curves already. That worked for all four seeds under discussion. The prime-curve seeds came from the same lrand48 generator but kept fewer bits of each output. Claude didn’t know which bits of the state the seeds might show, so it ran the solver over every window.
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