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We give precise quantum resource estimates for Shor's algorithm to compute discrete logarithms on elliptic curves over prime fields. The estimates are derived from a simulation of a Toffoli gate network for controlled elliptic curve point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Martin Roetteler , Michael Naehrig , Krysta M. Svore , Kristin Lauter

We present improved quantum circuits for elliptic curve scalar multiplication, the most costly component in Shor's algorithm to compute discrete logarithms in elliptic curve groups. We optimize low-level components such as reversible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Thomas Häner , Samuel Jaques , Michael Naehrig , Martin Roetteler , Mathias Soeken

In the past years, research on Shor's algorithm for solving elliptic curves for discrete logarithm problems (Shor's ECDLP), the basis for cracking elliptic curve-based cryptosystems (ECC), has started to garner more significant interest. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Harashta Tatimma Larasati , Howon Kim

We show in some detail how to implement Shor's efficient quantum algorithm for discrete logarithms for the particular case of elliptic curve groups. It turns out that for this problem a smaller quantum computer can solve problems further…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Proos , Christof Zalka

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

Quantum computers have the potential to perform computational tasks beyond the reach of classical machines. A prominent example is Shor's algorithm for integer factorization and discrete logarithms, which is of both fundamental importance…

Improving over an earlier construction by Kaye and Zalka, Maslov et al. describe an implementation of Shor's algorithm which can solve the discrete logarithm problem on binary elliptic curves in quadratic depth O(n^2). In this paper we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 Martin Roetteler , Rainer Steinwandt

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

We use Shor's algorithm for the computation of elliptic curve private keys as a case study for resource estimates in the silicon-photonics-inspired active-volume architecture. Here, a fault-tolerant surface-code quantum computer consists of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Daniel Litinski

Solving the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) is critical for evaluating the quantum security of widely deployed elliptic-curve cryptosystems. Consequently, minimizing the number of logical qubits required to execute this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Han Luo , Ziyi Yang , Ziruo Wang , Yuexin Su , Tongyang Li

Implementing the group arithmetic is a cost-critical task when designing quantum circuits for Shor's algorithm to solve the discrete logarithm problem. We introduce a tool for the automatic generation of addition circuits for ordinary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-13 Parshuram Budhathoki , Rainer Steinwandt

In previous research, quantum resources were concretely estimated for solving Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem(ECDLP). In [1], the quantum algorithm was optimized for the binary elliptic curves and the main optimization target was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Hyeonhak Kim , Seokhie Hong

This whitepaper seeks to elucidate implications that the capabilities of developing quantum architectures have on blockchain vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies. First, we provide new resource estimates for breaking the 256-bit…

Elliptic curves are planar curves which can be used to define an abelian group. The efficient computation of discrete logarithms over this group is a longstanding problem relevant to cryptography. It may be possible to efficiently compute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Maxwell Aifer , Evan Sheldon

Precise suites of benchmarks are required to assess the progress of early fault-tolerant quantum computers at economically impactful applications such as cryptanalysis. Appropriate challenges exist for factoring but those for elliptic curve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers , William Doyle , Timothy Foo

Cat qubits provide appealing building blocks for quantum computing. They exhibit a tunable noise bias yielding an exponential suppression of bit flips with the average photon number and a protection against the remaining phase errors can be…

Shor's algorithm is well-known for its capability to address the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) in polynomial time. The enhancement of its quantum resources continues to be a crucial focus of research. Nevertheless, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yan Huang , Fangguo Zhang , Fei Gao , Zijian Zhou , Longjiang Qu

To see the feasibility of a large-scale quantum computing, it is required to accurately analyze the performance and the quantum resource. However, most of the analysis reported so far have focused on the statistical examination, i.e.,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yongsoo Hwang , Taewan Kim , Chungheon Baek , Byung-Soo Choi

The quantum algorithm with polynomial time for discrete logarithm problem proposed by Shor is one of the most significant quantum algorithms, but a large number of qubits may be required in the Noisy Intermediate-scale Quantum (NISQ) era.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Hao Li , Daowen Qiu

Since the elliptic curve discrete logarithms problem (ECDLP) was proposed, it has been widely used in cryptosystem because of its strong security. Although the proposal of the extended Shor's algorithm offers hope for cracking ECDLP, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Xia Liu , Huan Yang , Li Yang
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