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The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

52 points aburan28 21 hours ago 8 comments

MisterTea 20 hours ago | parent

> Turns out memory can play tricks on everyone: we now know they were instead generated with the POSIX-standard drand48 random number generator.

Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.

john_strinlai 20 hours ago | parent

it would have been beneficial to disclose the origin.

lying for obfuscation purposes makes zero sense given what we know now.

simulator5g 15 hours ago | parent

Why?

therein 9 hours ago | parent

To demonstrate it was generated with nothing up the sleeve.

dang 20 hours ago | parent

The main thread is over here:

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 - Oct 2026 (91 comments)

(I've put OP's link in the toptext there as well.)

ignoramous 19 hours ago | parent

> I accept suggestions for other seed-based swag.

Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores, https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-b... / https://archive.vn/DI4NS / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312