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Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle involving the unexplained seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures, which were provided by the NSA.
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“Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle. The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA without explanation, raising long-standing suspicion about built-in backdoors.”
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