The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

What happened

We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.

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Timeline

1. 19:03
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2. 20:18
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