Claude Cracks 25-Year NSA Mystery in 30 Minutes: Is Bitcoin Safe?

TLDR Anthropic’s Claude model traced five NSA-supplied NIST curve seeds to a basic random-number program in under 30 minutes. The program used timestamps from 1997 and 1998, and anyone can now rerun it to get the same numbers. Anthropic says a hidden backdoor is less likely, but questions remain about how some numbers were chosen. Bitcoin uses a different curve, secp256k1, and was not affected. Quantum computing remains a separate long-term concern for Bitcoin. An Anthropic AI model has traced a set of numbers from the National Security Agency to an ordinary computer program. The numbers had puzzled cryptographers for 25 years.

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