Sounds entirely reasonable to me. They tried to give some credit. The main contribution is the solution that Claude came up with.

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nicce 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe someone already figured it out, but it is well covered somewhere. And Claude just used it. I wonder if we ever know for sure.

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whizzter 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude seems to be fairly good at bruteforcing/testing/etc on it's own, it solved a fairly intricate thing while I was busy on other things.

I've adapted a crypto-lib for TLS connections and had a mistake during negotation that truncated some algo-selection value, worked up until the other party started trialling post-quantum algorthims that apparently had algo-id's that collided with the truncated values I was using.

Claude figured out that from the code and trialling TLS handshakes.

Besides, since there was a bounty on finding the curve it seems unlikely that someone would've found out and not shared that? (unless working at a security service that figured out that it was possible to attack?)

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tonfa 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wouldn't they have claimed the bounty?

	▲	nicce 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If they thought it to be backdoor, why not sell for some other believer who pays more than the bounty? But anyway, not everyone is after money and fame.

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I_am_tiberius 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The main contribution is the solution that Claude came up with.

That's an argument that must be infuriating to all researchers who ever published a paper on that topic, because most likely Claude was trained with all of them.

	▲	baggy_trough 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I suppose so, but it's still the case.
	▲	lp92 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How is that any different from a human that learned from another researcher or paper?