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cowlby • yesterday at 10:34 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

For fun, give Opus 5.5 the initial hint and watch it work through it:

"There's a curiosity I noticed in the seeds of the ECDSA curve origins. You see the 1st digit is never over 7, which means that the left most bit is never over 0. lrand48() returns 31 bit numbers u know? So what if those 4 seeds were built from lrand48 or something. If they're built from 31 bit numbers on per 32 bit word that explains the pattern. Wonder if there's some other insight you might have beyond this"


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TedDoesntTalk • yesterday at 11:11 PM

I gave Open 5.5 high your hint. This was the most interesting output:

'Side curiosity: many of the SECG/X9.62 seeds contain the ASCII text 4D696E6768756151 75 = "MinghuaQu" (a Certicom researcher), sometimes shifted by half a byte.'

I don't see any mention of that in the article.

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Sharlin • yesterday at 11:25 PM

What if you omit the mention of lrand48?