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

CoinCentral·October 18, 2026·1 min read
Claude Cracks 25-Year NSA Mystery in 30 Minutes: Is Bitcoin Safe?

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.

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