Project Eleven just awarded 1 BTC for "the largest quantum attack on ECC to date", a 17-bit elliptic curve key recovered on IBM Quantum hardware. Yuval Adam replaced the quantum computer with /dev/urandom. It still recovers the key.

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logicallee 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

but does the quantum hardware do it any faster?

	▲	petterroea 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The author's own CLI recovers every reported private key at statistically indistinguishable rates from the IBM hardware runs.

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