Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes
Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes
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. Claude figured out in under 30 minutes that the seeds came from "lrand48," a simple C random number generator, making deliberate backdoors far less likely.
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- passed：Claude破解密码学谜题，实质AI应用
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Source: The Decoder · the-decoder.com