{"id":235848,"date":"2026-04-24T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/researcher-breaks-15-bit-elliptic-curve-key-in-largest-quantum-attack-wins-1-bitcoin-bounty-from-project-eleven"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:10:30","slug":"researcher-breaks-15-bit-elliptic-curve-key-in-largest-quantum-attack-wins-1-bitcoin-bounty-from-project-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/researcher-breaks-15-bit-elliptic-curve-key-in-largest-quantum-attack-wins-1-bitcoin-bounty-from-project-eleven","title":{"rendered":"Researcher breaks 15-bit elliptic curve key in \u2018largest quantum attack,\u2019 wins 1 bitcoin bounty from Project Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researcher-breaks-15-bit-elliptic-curve-key-in-largest-quantum-attack-wins-1-bitcoin-bounty-from-project-eleven.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli derived a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, Project Eleven said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli derived a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, Project Eleven said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}