Much of modern Internet traffic relies on elliptic curve cryptography, which allows users to prove ownership of a private key without revealing its contents. Trust in these security mechanisms is crucial, but the circumstances surrounding the creation of some standards have long been shrouded in mystery. In 2000, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) adopted curves proposed by the National Security Agency (NSA), with official sources not explaining the origin of their initial parameters. Subsequent revelations of intelligence agencies' efforts to influence cryptographic standards quickly raised suspicions that the constants were chosen to facilitate possible future breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Years of independent researchers' efforts, including the offering of cash prizes for solving the puzzle, have not yielded an answer for a long time. The breakthrough came only recently, when a researcher from the company Anthropic entrusted one of its research artificial intelligence models with the task of analyzing this data. In less than half an hour, the artificial intelligence managed to connect the origin of the disputed parameters with a simple pseudorandom number generator from older libraries of the C programming language, which used timestamps from 1997 and 1998 as the initial seed. The discovery reassured some of the expert public, as it suggests that the selection of parameters was most likely not a complex conspiracy, but a much more mundane process. Nevertheless, the case clearly highlights the importance of transparency in the creation of security standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interestingly, Bitcoin has never been part of this debate, as its cryptography is based on a much simpler equation with a very limited number of adjustable parameters, which greatly reduces the possibility of hidden flaws being built in. However, experts warn that the biggest long-term risk to modern cryptographic systems is quantum computers. Although the development of such hardware is progressing rapidly, the technology is not yet developed enough to pose a direct threat to existing cryptographic keys. A cash reward of approximately \u20ac33,700, announced for the solution to this long-standing puzzle, will be donated to a non-profit organization in the field of cybersecurity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ve\u010dina sodobnega spletnega prometa temelji na kriptografiji elipti\u010dnih krivulj, ki uporabnikom omogo\u010da dokazovanje lastni\u0161tva zasebnega klju\u010da brez razkritja njegove vsebine. Zaupanje v te varnostne mehanizme je klju\u010dnega pomena, vendar so bile okoli\u0161\u010dine nastanka nekaterih standardov dolgo zavite v tan\u010dico skrivnosti. Ameri\u0161ki Nacionalni in\u0161titut za standarde in tehnologijo (NIST) je leta 2000 sprejel krivulje, ki jih […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zivljenjski-slog","tag-umetna-inteligenca"],"acf":{"subtitle":"Umetna inteligenca je v manj kot pol ure pojasnila izvor spornih za\u010detnih \u0161tevil za kriptografske krivulje, ki jih je agencija NSA predala v devetdesetih letih. Strokovnjaki so to varnostno uganko neuspe\u0161no preiskovali kar 25 let, saj so \u0161tevilni sumili na namerno vgrajene stranske vhode.","heading":"","summary":"Umetna inteligenca Claude je v manj kot pol ure odkrila, da so sporna kriptografska \u0161tevila agencije NSA iz devetdesetih let nastala z obi\u010dajnim programskim generatorjem.","thumbnail_small":"https:\/\/racunalniske-novice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/yamu_jay-ai-generated-9088888_1920-560x315.jpg","thumbnail_large":"https:\/\/racunalniske-novice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/yamu_jay-ai-generated-9088888_1920-1024x683.jpg","thumbnail_caption":"Foto: Pixabay","gallery":"","video_gallery":null,"author":"","links":null,"sources":[{"title":"coindesk","url":"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2026\/10\/17\/wow-it-s-a-real-discovery-claude-cracks-a-25-year-nsa-number-mystery"}],"skip_language":[]},"yoast_head":"\n