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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

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Originally published by Lobsters on Oct 16, 2026.
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