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Replacing the QPU with /dev/urandom

Quality: 6/10 Relevance: 8/10

Summary

This GitHub README patches a cryptographic experiment to replace the IBM Quantum backend with /dev/urandom. It demonstrates that uniform random sampling can mimic claimed quantum results for ECDLP key recovery, undermining the claim of quantum hardware achieving the task and offering a hardware-free reproduction. The piece emphasizes the need to verify cryptanalytic claims in quantum cryptography and shows how reproducibility can reveal classical explanations.

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