Quantum Break: Researcher Wins 1 BTC for Largest ECC Attack Ever

The post Quantum Break: Researcher Wins 1 BTC for Largest ECC Attack Ever appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Post-quantum startup Project Eleven has today awarded a 1 BTC ($77,736 at writing time) prize to the independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli for the latest and largest demonstration of a quantum attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Using a publicly accessible quantum computer, Lelli successfully derived a 15-bit elliptic curve private key from its public key …