Anthropic's Claude traces NIST curve seeds, shedding light on Satoshi's secp256k1 choice
- —Claude traced the P-256 seed to Aug. 16, 1997, 1:52:34, the 1,842nd lrand48 candidate
- —NIST curve parameters derive from the lrand48 PRNG seeded with date and time
- —A $36,864 bounty was awarded and donated to the Internet Security Research Group
- —No vulnerability was found, weakening the theory of a deliberate NSA backdoor
Why it matters: Nothing changes for BTC or ETH holders, which both rely on secp256k1, but a long-running debate over the trustworthiness of NIST standards is now largely settled.
Source: Cryptoast
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