THE CLOCK DID IT | AI Cartoon by Zimbo

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Worried riveted robot beside a colossal vault door cracked open with golden light; a tiny red 1990s alarm clock is the key in the lock, and a small brown tabby cat looks up knowingly — on Anthropic's claim that Claude traced the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to a clock-seeded random-number generator. — Anthropic says its Claude research model traced the NSA's unexplained encryption seeds to a 1990s random-number generator seeded from a computer clock — cracking a 30-year backdoor mystery in under half an hour.Zimbo for AI News Page

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