"It's just timestamps," reads the opening of Anthropic's research post, which says that in under half an hour, Claude discovered that the ...

Claude traced the origin of five NIST elliptic-curve seeds to an ordinary random-number generator seeded with Unix ...

In under half an hour, Claude discovered the origins of the NIST P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 seeds. None of them ...

The 1960s was an era of technological revolution, and many of even the most limited developments from that period have had ...

Claude did not break elliptic curve cryptography, did not compute anyone's private key, and did not render TLS or Bitcoin ...

On August 1, 1997, a mathematics book was published by Maruzen.“Introduction to Number Theory Algorithms and Elliptic Curve ...

NIST elliptic curves, including P-256, contain a numerical value known as a "seed" that has been used for over 25 years ...

Anthropic announced on October 16 that its AI model Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery in under half an hour, tracing the origin ...

Anthropic’s latest explanation of where the NIST curve seeds came from reads, on the surface, like a tidy piece of ...

Anthropic says Claude identified the timestamp-based generation of NIST ECDSA curve seeds and partially explained several base points.

In October 2026 an Anthropic employee posed the problem to an internal research version of Claude without mentioning the ...