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

[Stephan Neuhaus]

On 4/26/26 3:36 PM, Peter Gutmann via cryptography wrote:
>    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.

What, no more barking? I guess that's progress for you.

Cheers

Stephan