In October 2026, an internal Anthropic research model using Claude took under 30 minutes to solve a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery regarding the origins of the NIST P-256 and other elliptic curve seeds supplied by the National Security Agency

From the articleAnthropic’s Claude cracks a 25-year NSA curve mystery, what it means for bitcoinAlso in Claude traces NIST P-256 seed to a 1997 random number generator run