Claude AI Cracks the NSA’s 25-Year Cryptography Seed Mystery

For 25 years, cryptographers suspected the NSA’s mysterious encryption seeds might conceal a backdoor. Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) cracked the puzzle in under 30 minutes, uncovering a surprisingly ordinary explanation. For decades, some of the world’s brightest cryptographers had been chasing a ghost. Five mathematical curves used to protect internet communications carried mysterious numbers […]

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