Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to a 1990S RNG

Anthropic's internal Claude model traced the origin of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds, resolving a longstanding mystery by identifying them as outputs from the C library's lrand48 RNG seeded with Unix timestamps. This finding disproves earlier theories that the seeds were derived from humorous passphrases by NSA employees.