Re:IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer
by tromp on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:28AM
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You cannot steal bitcoins from an address that's never been spent, since you only know the hash of the public key.
There are about 2^256/2^160=2^96 possible full public keys mapping to the known key hash, so you could run Grover's algorithm to recover one in about sqrt(2^96)=2^48 steps,
but given the slow cycle time of quantum computers, that's still going to be infeasible for a long time.
There are about 2^256/2^160=2^96 possible full public keys mapping to the known key hash, so you could run Grover's algorithm to recover one in about sqrt(2^96)=2^48 steps, but given the slow cycle time of quantum computers, that's still going to be infeasible for a long time.
This is why address re-use is not recommended...