National Security Agency
The National Security Agency supplied seeds for NIST’s elliptic‑curve cryptography. The National Security Agency supplied seeds for the NIST curve P‑256. NSA supplied seeds that underpin the NIST ECDSA digital signature standard. The NSA supplied starting numbers for NIST's adopted curves in 2000 Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, blames the NSA for failing to explain the choice of numbers in NIST curves Unexplained seeds supplied by the U.S. National Security Agency fueled suspicion about the origin of the P‑256 curve Claude unpicks the NSA mystery behind the P‑256 public seed used in Ethereum passkey security U.S. National Security Agency warned about PHP Darren Ross works at THE·TEAM Darren Ross speaks at Fundraising Trends: Get practical fundraising advice· Entity summary generated by Graphiti
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BY VALID-FROM DATE- National Security AgencyWORKS ATTHE·TEAM
Darren Ross works at THE·TEAM
- National Security AgencyWARNED ABOUTPHP
U.S. National Security Agency warned about PHP
- ClaudeUNPICKSNational Security Agency
Claude unpicks the NSA mystery behind the P‑256 public seed used in Ethereum passkey security
- National Security AgencySUPPLIED SEEDS TOClive Coleman
NSA supplied seeds that underpin the NIST ECDSA digital signature standard.
- Claude Code ReviewBLAMESNational Security Agency
Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, blames the NSA for failing to explain the choice of numbers in NIST curves
- National Security AgencySUPPLIED SEEDS TONational Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Security Agency supplied seeds for NIST’s elliptic‑curve cryptography.
- National Security AgencySUPPLIED SEEDS TOP-256
The National Security Agency supplied seeds for the NIST curve P‑256.
- National Security AgencySUPPLIED NUMBERS FORNational Institute of Standards and Technology
The NSA supplied starting numbers for NIST's adopted curves in 2000
- National Security AgencySUPPLIEDP-256
Unexplained seeds supplied by the U.S. National Security Agency fueled suspicion about the origin of the P‑256 curve
- National Security AgencySPEAKS ATTomorrow Ventures
Darren Ross speaks at Fundraising Trends: Get practical fundraising advice
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Events 3
- 5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 20261 cited report · 2026-10-30
- PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet1 cited report · 2026-10-22
- Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes1 cited report · 2026-10-17
Source reports 6
- 5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026TechCrunch · AI · 2026-10-30
- PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internetTechCrunch · AI · 2026-10-22
- Claude unpicks an NSA mystery behind Ethereum passkey securityCryptoSlate · 2026-10-18
- Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutesThe Decoder · 2026-10-17
- Did Satoshi Get Bitcoin Wrong? Claude's NSA Discovery Sparks DebateBeInCrypto · 2026-10-17
- ‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mysteryCoinDesk · 2026-10-17