| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago |
| “In under half an hour, Claude discovered the origins of the NIST P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 seeds. None of them were the results of any hash algorithm at all, but rather the output of the C library’s lrand48 random-number generator, seeded with a Unix timestamp!” Gorgeous. I wonder if the NSA employee who did this suffered a head injury or has been quietly giggling to themselves for the last quarter century. |
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| ▲ | sweis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The two people were Bob Reiter and Jerry Solinas. Jerry wrote in a 2015 email to Daniel Bernstein that he thought it was a hash of the passphrase. I corroborated that story with 4 people, including two ex-NSA folks off the record. Everyone was wrong! I wasn't able to reach Bob. He was working in private industry as of 2018, but never responded. |
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| ▲ | lifeisloving 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Kind of sus that they would spread a rumor that its a phrase. This isnt something I would forget, or confuse with a timestamp.. | | |
| ▲ | ACCount39 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's possible that this "phrase hash" method was used for a different case - like another, unrelated and possibly unreleased algorithm. And then it was confused for the one used for those curves. |
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| ▲ | perching_aix an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Maybe that explanation covers the rest that wasn’t identified? | |
| ▲ | Pannoniae 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | or they were lying... |
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| ▲ | tptacek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Someone just posted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQfNT6Jdkg |
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| ▲ | blast 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Someone > https://www.youtube.com/@steveweis4786 FTA: This work was conducted at Anthropic by [...], and Steve Weis. I wonder how much time he spent on the video relative to the other stuff | | |
| ▲ | sweis 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | A buddy did it with Claude, so zero time. | | |
| ▲ | 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | blast 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh I even saw your other posts in this thread but didn't recognize the name. So much for my research skills | | |
| ▲ | thadt an hour ago | parent [-] | | I mean, at least you didn’t spend the last 20 years hashing 2^51 sentences in your research. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Genuine question, how many days of your life have you had to spend on this particular tinfoil convention? | | | |
| ▲ | mrguyorama 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's one of the best executed implementations of that joke I've seen in years. | |
| ▲ | hybrid_study 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | understanding Spanish throws it off, but this is hilarious either way. LOL | | |
| ▲ | guelo 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I understand Spanish being from Latin America but for a long time I couldn't understand a single thing he said because of the Spaniard accent and crazy laughter, and I enjoyed the memes just fine. But then few years ago I watched it with the real subtitles and something clicked in my brain so now when I watch it I mostly understand him fine. But now the memes are ruined because it's hard to hear and read two speeches at the same time. Just an annecdote about our weird brains. | | |
| ▲ | KAMSPioneer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Just to add here that this guy doesn't have a "standard" Spanish accent. He was from Andalucía (I don't remember where exactly), a region rather known for its accent being difficult for even native speakers to understand. Anyway after I moved to Andalucía I now can understand the story he tells, but I have to pay close attention! | |
| ▲ | tptacek 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this like what Downfall is like for Germans? |
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