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Filippo Valsorda confirms NIST curve seed bounty resolution and independent Go reconstruction
The NIST curve-seed bounty organizer confirms the October 2026 prize claim, reports independently reimplementing the recovered lrand48 and timestamp procedure in Go, and identifies unresolved candidate-selection filters; not a cryptographic exploit.
- Published
- Oct 16, 2026
- Source role
- independent technical reproduction
Evidence record
The NIST curve-seed bounty organizer confirms the October 2026 prize claim, reports independently reimplementing the recovered lrand48 and timestamp procedure in Go, and identifies unresolved candidate-selection filters; not a cryptographic exploit.
Claim-level citations (1)
- supportsClaude reconstructed historical NIST curve-seed generation without breaking ECDSA: Filippo Valsorda, organizer of the NIST elliptic-curve seed bounty, reported independently reimplementing the timestamp-seeded generator in Go and confirming the recovered public seeds, while acknowledging that extra candidate-selection criteria remain unexplained.
October 16 article, paragraphs describing Go reimplementation and the two remaining selection criteria