Quantum computer breaks 15-bit elliptic curve cryptographic key

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...
The Manila Times

Project Eleven Awards 1 BTC Q-Day Prize for Largest Quantum Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography to Date

Researcher breaks 15-bit ECC key on publicly accessible quantum hardware in a 512x jump from the previous public ...
AMBCrypto

Quantum test breaks ECC key, reinforcing long-term risk to Bitcoin security

A new quantum computing demonstration has renewed focus on the long-term security of cryptocurrencies, after a researcher ...

In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble ...
Cryptopolitan on MSN

Researcher wins 1 BTC bounty for escalating quantum threat timeline

Today, April 24, Giancarlo Lelli, an Italian researcher, was awarded a one-Bitcoin prize after the world’s largest ...
Dark Reading

Inside NIST's 4 Crypto Algorithms for a Post-Quantum World

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected four candidates to form the basis of future data-protection technologies to resist attack by quantum computers, the US science agency ...
SiliconANGLE

Google finds quantum computers could break bitcoin’s encryption sooner than expected

Google LLC today published a paper that indicates a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency. The cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computers were already ...