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# Steve Weis: four people, including Jerry Solinas, told the 'raise' story and nobody was right

Steve Weis (@sweis), X, 2026-10-16.
Source: https://x.com/sweis/status/2111173953658159282

## Why it matters

First-hand account (~381k views) of the human search for the NIST curve seeds that the Claude result overturned; links his updated blog post.

## Summary

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.

## Archived text

> 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

Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 384,722 views, 385 likes, 8 reposts, 2 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/)