Claude cracked the NSA’s 26-year-old elliptic-curve seed mystery in just half an hour. Cryptographers had been grappling with it for decades, but AI took a look at the random number generators in C libraries from 1997–98 and found it—the P-256 seed was the 1,842nd candidate. The backdoor mystery is pretty much cleared up. The secp256k1 used by $BTC is not the same thing as the NIST system, so don’t panic.

The truly chilling part is the flip side: AI is now tackling cryptography problems at such speed that we may have to rethink the whole model for offensive and defensive security on-chain.

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