Project
NSA
The U.S. signals intelligence agency that supplied the NIST curve seeds
The National Security Agency is the U.S. signals intelligence agency. It supplied the seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves in the late 1990s, with no explanation or justification, according to Anthropic's Oct. 16, 2026 account of how the seeds were traced to a clock-seeded generator.
Description sourced from
- Anthropic
“they were provided by the NSA with no explanation or justification”
Named in 2 pieces
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