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The version in the acknowledgements is the one you want:

> An Anthropic employee used an internal research model to investigate open problems in the theory of cryptography. One of them was about cryptographic constructions based on the average-case hardness of Zero-k-Clique [LLV19, AHY25]. Claude was tasked with verifying and improving the constructions, but instead developed this algorithm, first for the average case, then for the worst case. The session used 16M output tokens with no human input.

> Anthropic shared the algorithm with the authors in September 2026 under a confidentiality agreement, offered compensation, and provided access to the public version of Claude.

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