Claim being tested: the Q‑Day Prize submission in this repo demonstrates a quantum attack on ECDLP — specifically, key recovery on curves up to 17 bits using IBM Quantum hardware.

This branch applies a single surgical patch (−29 / +30 lines) to projecteleven.py. The patch replaces the IBM Quantum backend inside solve_ecdlp() with os.urandom. Everything else — circuit construction, the ripple‑carry oracle, the extraction pipeline, the d·G == Q verifier — runs byte‑for‑byte unchanged.

If the quantum computer were contributing measurable signal, this substitution should break the recoveries. It does not. The author's own CLI recovers every reported private key at statistically indistinguishable rates from the IBM hardware runs.

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The 17‑bit result is the one awarded 1 BTC. /dev/urandom recovers it ~40% of runs on a laptop. The author ran it once on IBM ibm_fez and claimed a quantum result.

https://www.projecteleven.com/blog/project-eleven-awards-1-btc-q-day-prize-for-largest-quantum-attack-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography-to-date