Claude unpicks an NSA mystery behind Ethereum passkey security
Anthropic’s timestamp recipe reconstructs P-256’s public seed, adding provenance evidence while leaving selection criteria and base-point origins unexplained. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Anthropic's Claude was used to reconstruct the public seed for the P-256 elliptic curve, which underpins Ethereum passkey security, by following a timestamp-based recipe. The work adds provenance evidence for the curve's parameters but leaves the original selection criteria and base-point origins unexplained. This is a technical research curiosity rather than a market-moving event, though it touches on the cryptographic foundations of Ethereum account security.
