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Anthropic researchers cracked the 25-year-old mystery of how NIST's elliptic curve seeds were generated — they came from the POSIX drand48 RNG seeded with UNIX timestamps, not hashed sentences — claiming Filippo Valsorda's full bounty and donating it to ISRG/Let's Encrypt.
Phil Zimmermann explains his motivations for creating PGP in 1991, arguing that strong encryption is a fundamental right to privacy in the information age and that universal encryption use protects everyone from suspicion.