🚨 BREAKING NEWS: ‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
An Anthropic AI model has cracked one of cryptography’s longest-running whodunits, tracing numbers the NSA handed to the U.S. government in the late 1990s, which were long suspected of hiding a backdoor, to an ordinary random-number program fed with timestamps from 1997 and 1998.
It took the model just about half an hour to come up with a solution — one that cryptographers had been chasing to answer for 25 years.
Much of the internet relies on elliptic-curve cryptography, the family of mathematics that is also used to protect bitcoin wallets. It lets someone prove they hold a secret key without revealing the details of the key itself.
Think of the curve as a lock design anyone can inspect. Each person using it has their own secret key, but everyone relies on the design being difficult to break.
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An Anthropic AI model has cracked one of cryptography’s longest-running whodunits, tracing numbers the NSA handed to the U.S. government in the late 1990s, which were long suspected of hiding a backdoor, to an ordinary random-number program fed with timestamps from 1997 and 1998.
It took the model just about half an hour to come up with a solution — one that cryptographers had been chasing to answer for 25 years.
Much of the internet relies on elliptic-curve cryptography, the family of mathematics that is also used to protect bitcoin wallets. It lets someone prove they hold a secret key without revealing the details of the key itself.
Think of the curve as a lock design anyone can inspect. Each person using it has their own secret key, but everyone relies on the design being difficult to break.
🔗 [Đọc toàn bộ bài viết tại bản gốc](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/17/wow-it-s-a-real-discovery-claude-cracks-a-25-year-nsa-number-mystery)
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