Did Giancarlo Lelli Just Bluff His Way Through The QDay Prize?
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Project Eleven awarded its Q-Day Prize to Giancarlo Lelli for demonstrating a 15-bit elliptic curve key break on a quantum computer. Ref: https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/04/24/project-eleven-q-day-prize-quantum-ecc-attack/ I'm not a Quantum Computing expert in anyway. Other people have Ph.D.'s and Post Docs. I am a quantum computing evangelist at best and I follow all announcements with interest and try to learn from them. So I located Giancarlo Lelli's Github Repo with the submission he made to the QDay Prize. I was shocked to read the code. So I got it reviewed by a few quantum programmers at the university nearby. They were shocked too. Ref: https://github.com/GiancarloLelli/quantum I also got the codebase reviewed by chatgpt. https://chatgpt.com/share/69edbd73-d3d4-8320-b0cb-4715da7cc80a https://chatgpt.com/share/69ecaf5c-8618-8320-a5f8-1e80e55ed076 I think the Judges were very gullible. Its a shame this is the state of affairs of a global competition. What is your technical assessment? is the submission a scalable pure quantum algorithm or is it a toy? submitted by /u/Significant_Wish7652 [link] [comments]