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Comment by 1sha

1 day ago

drand48() could be one of hundreds of methods that were tried to produce specific values with plausible deniability and happened to produce them. The other searches were discarded.

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duskwuff  1 day ago

That could be a valid suspicion if the RNG chosen was particularly obscure. drand48 isn't - it's part of the standard C library.

matthewdgreen  1 day ago

Not really plausible if it was used for all the curves.

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