10 points ibobev 2 hours ago 4 comments
Doohickey-d 39 minutes ago | parent
previously discussed; Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800)
schiffern 39 minutes ago | parent
Since when has evidence of a plausible innocuous explanation ever been enough to lift suspicion of an espionage intelligence operation?
If I was the NSA, the most efficient use of compute power would be to generate an enormous library of innocuous hashes/seeds, then generate my secret key pairs, then find collisions. Call it the No Cloud Of Suspicion Evil Key Generator.
Depending on the exact rainbow table used they wouldn't necessarily be able to recover the original seed generator (that would require more space, and they're already going to be stretching space limits).
dooglius 6 minutes ago | parent
Why would they not have released the timestamp a while back then?
Dylan16807 5 minutes ago | parent
As explained on the previous post, when using a method like this there's not enough innocuous seeds to find bad keys. You might semi-plausibly get really lucky and find one but not this many.