A researcher demonstrates that a Q-Day Prize-winning submission claiming quantum attacks on ECDLP produces identical key recovery results when the IBM Quantum backend is replaced with /dev/urandom random generation. The finding reveals the attack succeeds through classical verification of uniformly random candidates, not quantum computation, matching theoretical predictions the submission's own documentation acknowledged.
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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
Replacing IBM Quantum with random number generation produces identical cryptanalysis results, exposing a Q-Day Prize submission as classical randomness masquerading as quantum computation.
Saturday, April 25, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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