Reposted by Robin Wilton 🇱🇧
( @filippo.abyssdomain.expert's essay on the NIST elliptic curve seeds result words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/ reminded me of this as it's well done.)
words.filippo.io
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.