J. Ayo Akinyele, Ripple's Head of Engineering, commented on Anthropic's Claude AI resolving a 25-year-old cryptography enigma. The AI discovered the origins of popular NIST elliptic curve parameters, which had long been speculated to contain potential NSA backdoors. Claude found that the seeds were generated using the lrand48 pseudorandom number generator. Akinyele noted this breakthrough offers reproducible evidence and reduces the likelihood of intentional weakening of these specific NIST curves.