Dossier
QDay Prize
Coverage of QDay Prize in the Nexus archive.
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- Bitcoin quantum threat contest backfires: Google pros ask organizers to “save what credibility they have left” - fake quantum results involved, lol.
Project Eleven's Bitcoin quantum threat contest backfired after researchers criticized the winner's 'quantum' result as equivalent to classical guessing. Google's Craig Gidney and others accused the competition of damaging credibility, with Project Eleven's CEO admitting the contest was 'imperfect.'
- The predictable failure of the QDay Prize
The QDay Prize, intended to raise awareness about quantum computing threats to cryptography, is criticized as meaningless after a 15-bit key 'break' was shown to be equivalent to random guessing. The article argues the competition failed to achieve its goal and instead undermines efforts to address quantum threats, with companies like Google and CloudFlare already advancing post-quantum cryptography.