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Claude Solves 26 Year Old NIST Curve Seed Mystery in 30 Minutes

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Anthropic's internal AI model identified the specific timestamps that generated the seed parameters for the NIST elliptic curves, resolving a 26-year-old cryptographic puzzle in under 30 minutes. The research version of Claude confirmed the findings as real-world after calculating that 20 top bits were clear, which it determined as a one in a million probability.

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  1. SOURCEhuggingnewshuggingnews.com
  2. SOURCEtechmeme.com
  3. SOURCE@anthropicai“Claude Mythos 5 designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude or more”x.com
  4. SOURCE@stocksavvyshay“Claude Mythos could bring quantum computing “within reach sooner” after designing circuits that make a critical operation ~17x cheaper”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@tftc21“the P-256 seed was candidate #1842 from a random number generator started at 01:52:34 UTC on August 16, 1997”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@ryaneshea“anthropic gets 21M gates at 843 qubits... [anons] gets 11.9M gates at 843 qubit”x.com
  7. SUPPORT@dair_ai“LLM-proposed quantum circuits beat the best-known designs on seven of eight tasks, with fewer Toffoli gates and fewer qubits”x.com
  8. SUPPORT@lukolejnik“"is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years?" -- said Claude, the AI agent”x.com
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