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pigeonstoday at 12:58 AM2 repliesview on HN

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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logicalleetoday at 3:45 AM

but does the quantum hardware do it any faster?

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