English
Related papers

Related papers: Space-Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Elliptic Cur…

200 papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We perform logical and physical resource estimation for computing binary elliptic curve discrete logarithms using Shor's algorithm on fault-tolerant quantum computers. We adopt a windowed approach to design our circuit implementation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Michael Garn , Angus Kan

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…

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we intend to study the geometric meaning of the discrete logarithm problem defined over an Elliptic Curve. The key idea is to reduce the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (EC-DLP) into a system of equations. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Daniele Di Tullio , Ankan Pal

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…

Solving the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) with quantum computers is a fundamental task with important implications. Beyond Shor's algorithm, many researchers have proposed alternative solutions in recent years. However, due to current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Renjie Xu , Daowen Qiu , Ligang Xiao , Le Luo , Xu Zhou

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

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

We describe an implementation of Shor's quantum algorithm to factor n-bit integers using only 2n+2 qubits. In contrast to previous space-optimized implementations, ours features a purely Toffoli based modular multiplication circuit. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Thomas Häner , Martin Roetteler , Krysta M. Svore

Shor's algorithm for integer factorization offers an exponential speedup over classical methods but remains impractical on Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware due to the need for many coherent qubits and very deep circuits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›