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# Steve Weis: 'CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS'

Steve Weis (@sweis), X, 2026-10-16. Importance: major (4 of 5).
Source: https://x.com/sweis/status/2111165738836717980

## Why it matters

Most-viewed post on Anthropic's NIST ECDSA seed result (~3.0M views), from a team member who had chased the seeds for years.

## Summary

Posted Oct 16 18:41 UTC by Steve Weis (@sweis); 2,991,041 views, 6,868 likes, 794 reposts when read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-17.

## Archived text

> CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
> https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 3,029,893 views, 6,926 likes, 802 reposts, 214 replies (at fetch time)

## Cited in

- 2026-10-16: [Claude explains where the NIST P-256 curve seeds came from](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-16-claude-recovers-nist-ecdsa-curve-seeds/)