Comment by pigeons
12 hours ago
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.
but does the quantum hardware do it any faster?
> The author's own CLI recovers every reported private key at statistically indistinguishable rates from the IBM hardware runs.
I think that means success rate, not speed.