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Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.\n\n## People and systems\n\nJohn Wood; Henry de Valence; Ava Howell; Zack Voase; Lucy Sweet; Amir Omidi; Paul Crowley; Iain McGinniss; Nicholas Carlini; Steve Weis\n\nNamed source authors and agent execution are recorded separately; individual effort shares are unknown.\n\nClaude / Anthropic / UNKNOWN: Source-reported investigation and code generation for historical parameter reconstruction; the exact underlying model identifier is unknown (source reported).\n\n## Original sources\n\n- [Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins](https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins)\n", "summary": "Reported computational reconstruction of historical NIST and ANSI curve seeds and several base points using older pseudorandom generators, with Claude identifying and investigating the generating patterns and a named human team documenting the results. Reported result; not independently verified by WRS. 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