{"id":"tp-34391","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Claude Reconstructs P-256’s Public Seed From a 1997 Generator Run","author":"Simon Yoon","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/34391","datePublished":"2026-10-18T14:10:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-18T14:10:16.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"The 160-bit seed matched candidate 1,842 in a timestamp-initialized `lrand48` run; why that candidate was selected and how the curve’s base point was generated remain unresolved.","section":"Technology","references":[{"title":"covered in earlier reporting","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/34151"}]}