Steve Weis: four people, including Jerry Solinas, told the ‘raise’ story and nobody was right
Steve Weis @sweisX
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First-hand account (~381k views) of the human search for the NIST curve seeds that the Claude result overturned; links his updated blog post.
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Posted Oct 16 19:14 UTC by Steve Weis (@sweis); 380,756 views, 384 likes, 8 reposts when read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-17.
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I spent a good amount of time digging. I found ex-NSA employees, older cryptographers, and old documents.
I had four independent people give the “Jerry and Bob deserve a raise” story -- including Jerry Solinas.
Turns out nobody was right! https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html