2026-10-18 06:55 UTC
Correction: Claude a plausible way these curve points were generated. And “plausible” is carrying a metric fuckton of weight here.
It found PRNG settings that could theoretically generate the same values, but the fact that it requires thousands of iterations makes me think this is more of a coincidence than anything. Especially given that the NSA employee remembered something completely different.
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@lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2026-10-18 07:51
They write that this is the model questioning whether it could be coincidence… Chances for that look veeeeeeeeeeery low… Hmm wait. Let me be careful about the plausibility: is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years? It’s verified by direct computation on my side: 160-bit match from a 32-bit seed + small index: no chance coincidences (10 × 160 bits). It’s real.