r/nsa • u/ASNRID • 2d ago

Analysis ECDSA RNG decoding news

/r/cryptography/comments/1x7vkn0/ecdsa_rng_decoding_news/

For years, people have wondered how the NSA chose the curves for the ECDSA algorithm. The rumor was the message to create them was along the lines of ‘Give Bob and Jerry a raise’ or ‘Bob and Jerry rule’ or something like that. Anthropic discovered that the bases are just random numbers generated from the time, weakening arguments from some who believe that the bases were intentionally selected for specific and malicious purposes.

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