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The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.

By words.filippo.io by FiloSottileLobsters
The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

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Originally published by Lobsters on Oct 16, 2026.

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