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Four workers cut runtime from 43.215 to 15.878 seconds, a 2.72 times speed-up, with entropy 7.999940 bits/byte.

Hanno Böck has not yet added checks for small ECDSA keys and plans a later write-up.

Anthropic’s Claude traced NIST curve seeds to a 1990s C random generator, not hidden NSA backdoors.

Claude traced NIST's unexplained ECDSA curve seeds to lrand48 initialized with a 1997-1998 Unix timestamp.

Anthropic says Claude reconstructed NIST curve seeds as 1990s lrand48 outputs from Unix timestamps, with no cryptographic break.

Anthropic says Claude traced NIST ECDSA seeds to lrand48 outputs from Unix timestamps, not a hidden backdoor.

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Vitalik Buterin backs a warning that AI-accelerated math could weaken ECDSA wallet cryptography before quantum computers.

Ethereum researchers warn AI math advances could someday break wallet ECDSA, though nobody has done so.

ZKS-PQC swaps bulky post-quantum V2X signatures for compact zero-knowledge proofs, cutting message size over 95%.

Ubuntu patched two OpenSSH flaws, including command execution on 14.04 and an ECDSA bypass.

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