why though? in particular if the NSA wanted to hide their nefarious intent here, why wouldn't they use something stronger than an LCG so the question for how they're generated remained open forever?
McGlockenshire 3 days ago [-]
What's more likely, the random calls were made at those times, or that someone changed the numbers to make it look like they were made at those times?
Only one of those requires a conspiracy theory-tainted brain to think up.
MisterTea 3 days ago [-]
> Turns out memory can play tricks on everyone: we now know they were instead generated with the POSIX-standard drand48 random number generator.
Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.
john_strinlai 3 days ago [-]
it would have been beneficial to disclose the origin.
lying for obfuscation purposes makes zero sense given what we know now.
simulator5g 2 days ago [-]
Why?
therein 2 days ago [-]
To demonstrate it was generated with nothing up the sleeve.
simulator5g 15 hours ago [-]
I don't see how this demonstrates that. The seed could have been generated at a specific point in time, resulting in a specific value, which may be useful in some way. How is it any different from just defining a seed manually?
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 - Oct 2026 (91 comments)
(I've put OP's link in the toptext there as well.)
Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores, https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-b... / https://archive.vn/DI4NS / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312
Only one of those requires a conspiracy theory-tainted brain to think up.
Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.
lying for obfuscation purposes makes zero sense given what we know now.