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Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

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Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

The Decoder · Oct 17, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

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.…