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> 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.

lol the "quantum computer" didn't do anything but generate noise, you could still recover the key with a regular CPU
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GNU/翠星石 · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc5tlngqj4f9f3lkxnu2swe98pem78ss6xf380ldh3rlrm595zruspq6wcx Wake me up when a quantum computer can factor 42.