The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
- We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48 seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.
- They chose to donate the prize to ISRG, the non-profit that operates Let’s Encrypt, tripling its value to $36,864 (36 Ki$).
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- We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48 seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.
- They chose to donate the prize to ISRG, the non-profit that operates Let’s Encrypt, tripling its value to $36,864 (36 Ki$).
Sources: Filippo