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This paper presents a generalization of a method allowing the transformation of the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) over prime fields to the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problem. The original method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Łukasz Dzierzkowski

Quantum computers have the potential to break classical cryptographic systems by efficiently solving problems such as the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem using Shor's algorithm. While resource estimates for factoring-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Quan Gu , Han Ye , Junjie Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

Shor's quantum algorithm for discrete logarithms applied to elliptic curve groups forms the basis of a "quantum attack" of elliptic curve cryptosystems. To implement this algorithm on a quantum computer requires the efficient implementation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Phillip Kaye , Christof Zalka

Shor's powerful quantum algorithm for factoring represents a major challenge in quantum computation and its full realization will have a large impact on modern cryptography. Here we implement a compiled version of Shor's algorithm in a…

Eker{\aa} and H{\aa}stad have introduced a variation of Shor's algorithm for the discrete logarithm problem (DLP). Unlike Shor's original algorithm, Eker{\aa}-H{\aa}stad's algorithm solves the short DLP in groups of unknown order. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Martin Ekerå

Shor's algorithm is one of the most significant quantum algorithms. Shor's algorithm can factor large integers with a certain success probability in polynomial time. However, Shor's algorithm requires an unbearable amount of qubits in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Ligang Xiao , Daowen Qiu , Le Luo , Paulo Mateus

We heuristically show that Shor's algorithm for computing general discrete logarithms achieves an expected success probability of approximately 60% to 82% in a single run when modified to enable efficient implementation with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Martin Ekerå

The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem is considered a secure cryptographic primitive. The purpose of this paper is to propose a paradigm shift in attacking the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem. In this paper, we will argue…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ansari Abdullah , Ayan Mahalanobis , Vivek M. Mallick

In this paper we generalize the quantum algorithm for computing short discrete logarithms previously introduced by Eker{\aa} so as to allow for various tradeoffs between the number of times that the algorithm need be executed on the one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Martin Ekerå , Johan Håstad

In recent years, advancements in quantum chip technology, such as Willow, have contributed to reducing quantum computation error rates, potentially accelerating the practical adoption of quantum computing. As a result, the design of quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Abel C. H. Chen

Shor's algorithm is one of the most important quantum algorithm proposed by Peter Shor [Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1994, pp. 124--134]. Shor's algorithm can factor a large integer with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Ligang Xiao , Daowen Qiu , Le Luo , Paulo Mateus

Pollard's Rho is a method for solving the integer factorization problem. The strategy searches for a suitable pair of elements belonging to a sequence of natural numbers that given suitable conditions yields a nontrivial factor. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Daniel Chicayban Bastos , Luis Antonio Kowada

In this paper, we describe a new Las Vegas algorithm to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem. The algorithm depends on a property of the group of rational points of an elliptic curve and is thus not a generic algorithm. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ayan Mahalanobis , Vivek Mallick

We describe an efficient quantum algorithm for computing discrete logarithms in semigroups using Shor's algorithms for period finding and discrete log as subroutines. Thus proposed cryptosystems based on the presumed hardness of discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Andrew M. Childs , Gábor Ivanyos

Amongst the most remarkable successes of quantum computation are Shor's efficient quantum algorithms for the computational tasks of integer factorisation and the evaluation of discrete logarithms. In this article we review the essential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Richard Jozsa

Shor's r-algorithm (Shor, Zhurbenko (1971), Shor (1979)) with space stretching in the direction of difference of two adjacent subgradients is a competitive method of nonsmooth optimization. However, the original r-algorithm is designed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Vladimir Norkin , Anton Kozyriev

The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem is of fundamental importance in public-key cryptography. It is in use for a long time. Moreover, it is an interesting challenge in computational mathematics. Its solution is supposed to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ansari Abdullah , Ayan Mahalanobis

Shor's algorithm, which given appropriate hardware can factorise an integer $N$ in a time polynomial in its binary length $L$, has arguable spurred the race to build a practical quantum computer. Several different quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Austin G. Fowler , Simon J. Devitt , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We detail techniques to optimise high-level classical simulations of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm. Chief among these is to examine the entangling properties of the circuit and to effectively map it across the one-dimensional structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Aidan Dang , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

With the development of Shor's algorithm, some nondeterministic polynomial (NP) time problems (e.g. prime factorization problems and discrete logarithm problems) may be solved in polynomial time. In recent years, although some homomorphic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Abel C. H. Chen