Hacker News: 12aft5lhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=12aft5lHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:57:38 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by 12aft5l in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"]]>Where do you get the 2^30 from? drand48 could be f_0, but they could have tried f_1, f_2, ... as well and chosen the f_n that yielded the desired but plausible values.

All we know is that drand48 gave values that the NSA was happy with.

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