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The Stack — October 18, 2026
10:56
Daily IT Briefing
AI & Security
A Claude research model explains where the NIST elliptic curve seeds came from. Anthropic researchers report that an internal Claude research model solved a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery in under 30 minutes. The NSA supplied seeds for the NIST P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 curves around 2000 for FIPS 186-2 (ECDSA) and never explained how they were…