lrand48

Named by 3 kept items in this workspace.

2 items name it under frameworks and tools and 1 under classification.technologies.

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‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
articleas frameworks and tools2026-10-17
Random-number generator found in older C software libraries. It was used with 1997 and 1998 timestamps to reproduce the NSA-supplied NIST curve seeds.
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
writeupas frameworks and tools2026-10-16
C library linear congruential random number generator (returns top 31 bits of a 48-bit state), initialised with srand48; found to have generated the NIST curve seeds
Rekt - News or Hype?
articleas classification.technologies

‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
article2026-10-17It is written here as lrand48: random-number generator in older C software libraries; the page says it is predictable and unsuitable for generating wallet secret keys.

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