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Anthropic AI found the NSA's 'secret' numbers in 1990s software
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Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI, says the numbers came from lrand48, a simple random-number tool in 1990s C software libraries. The NSA, America's signals-intelligence agency, had given the US government the curves without explaining how some were designed, which fed fears of a hidden backdoor. For one widely used curve, P-256, Anthropic traced the sequence to 16 August 1997.
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