IonQ publishes full-stack blueprint for breaking 256-bit elliptic-curve signatures
A fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer with 19,397 physical qubits could complete the underlying computation in 25.7 days per attempt, with a proven lower bound on the success probability.
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The company estimates that a fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer with 19,397 physical qubits could attack secp256k1 in 25.7 days, highlighting the growing urgency of post-quantum cryptography.
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