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Re: How long to hack an address that is used to send BTC multiple times?
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haltingprobability
on 01/01/2018, 05:06:38 UTC
The current problem with ECDSA is that it is susceptible to attacks by quantum computer due to Shor's algorithm. This means that quantum computers can potentially crack ECDSA in a reasonable amount of time.

Shor's algorithm only provides quadratic speedup. That means that the approx. 256 bits of security of secp256k1 becomes approx 128 bits of security in a world of readily-available, at-scale quantum computing. I wouldn't call 2128 brute-forceable "in a reasonable amount of time."