"This helps fill out a page of cryptographic history, and reinforces our confidence in these critical cryptographic primitives."
Typical Valsorda. Even the Anthropic article states the timestamps could have been selected and the whole thing could be a "proof" that the NSA does not have a magic number up their sleeve.
why though? in particular if the NSA wanted to hide their nefarious intent here, why wouldn't they use something stronger than an LCG so the question for how they're generated remained open forever?
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 - Oct 2026 (91 comments)
Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores, https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-b... / https://archive.vn/DI4NS / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312
Typical Valsorda. Even the Anthropic article states the timestamps could have been selected and the whole thing could be a "proof" that the NSA does not have a magic number up their sleeve.
Only one of those requires a conspiracy theory-tainted brain to think up.
Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.
lying for obfuscation purposes makes zero sense given what we know now.