[Cryptography] The quantum dog-and-abacus show continues

[Peter Gutmann]

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897647

  "Project Eleven just awarded 1 BTC [USD 78,000 from a quick check] 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".

I could have got them the same result for a tin of dog food and a thrown
tennis ball.

Peter.