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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
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pigeons
2 hours ago
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pigeons
2 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.