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beginner
Why was the ECDSA seed mystery significant?
Unknown seed origins raised concerns about potential backdoors in widely used ECDSA curves.
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intermediate
How did Claude crack the seed origins?
By recognizing `lrand48` PRNG output patterns and reverse-engineering Unix timestamp initialization.
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Which curve base points remain unexplained?
Base points for P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521, and NIST binary curves remain unexplained.
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