Researcher wins 1 bitcoin (BTC) for largest quantum attack on elliptic curve yet
The quantum attack Bitcoin has spent years treating as tomorrow’s problem just got a little less theoretical. Quantum security startup Project Eleven said it awarded its 1 bitcoin BTC$77,572.57 Q-Day Prize to independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli on Friday after he broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, deriving a private encryption…