The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
aburan28
48 points
7 comments
October 16, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
MisterTea
> Turns out memory can play tricks on everyone: we now know they were instead generated with the POSIX-standard drand48 random number generator. Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.
dang
The main thread is over here: Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 - Oct 2026 (91 comments) (I've put OP's link in the toptext there as well.)
ignoramous
> I accept suggestions for other seed-based swag. Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores , https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-b... / https://archive.vn/DI4NS / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312