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cryptanalysis 4 min read
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RSA-2048 falls: the 20M noisy-qubit estimate, redrawn

Gidney & Ekerå said ~20 million noisy qubits and ~8 hours. Three years of error-correction progress later, the number is moving — but not the conclusion. Where the 2026 resource estimates land.

by Mara Chen · ·#rsa ·#shor ·#resource-estimate
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cryptanalysis 5 min read
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Shor's Algorithm vs Bitcoin: anatomy of a key-derivation kill chain

How Shor's period-finding routine breaks ECDSA over secp256k1, what that means for exposed Bitcoin UTXOs, and what migration to a post-quantum signature scheme actually looks like at protocol level.

by Riku Saari · ·#shor ·#bitcoin ·#ecdsa
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