Cryptography A Researcher Just Broke a 15-Bit Elliptic Curve Key on a Quantum Computer. Here's Why That Should Concern You. On April 24, 2026, Project Eleven awarded 1 BTC to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware. Here's what that means, why the trajectory matters more than today's number.
Cybersecurity Google and Cloudflare Set a 2029 PQC Deadline. The Rest of Big Tech Did Not. Two papers dropped at the end of March. Both said the same thing in different ways: the quantum threat to elliptic curve cryptography is closer than we thought. How close? The kind of close that made Google set an internal deadline five years ahead of what the US government asked
