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.
logicallee•38m ago
but does the quantum hardware do it any faster?
petterroea•28m ago
> The author's own CLI recovers every reported private key at statistically indistinguishable rates from the IBM hardware runs.
dogma1138•55m ago
Just to point it out this isn’t a jab at QC but rather a jab at project 11 and possibly the submission author, basically they failed to validate the submission properly and the code proves that the solution is classical.
Recovering a 17bit ecc key isn’t a challenge for current classical computers via brute force.
logicallee•39m ago
if the solution is faster than random it could still be a real solution on a quantum computer.
iberator•31m ago
Quantum computing is 3 decades old scam.
Not even Google was able to prove that their quantum computer works LOL.
weakened algorithms to the extreme (17 bits in 2026 LOL).
dlcarrier•4m ago
A 17 bit key has 131072 possibilities, which is trivial easy. Defeating it with a quantum computer is till very much a physics demonstration, and not at all attempting to be a useful computing task.
pigeons•3h ago
logicallee•38m ago
petterroea•28m ago