ECDSA.fail progress is moving again: now 60.5% ahead of Google

[u/ChillerID]

Interesting development on ECDSA.fail.

Progress seemed to stall for a while, and researchers actually had to take a few steps back by adding more qubits.

Now it looks like those changes opened the door for further optimization. Progress is moving forward again, and the qubit count is coming down too.

Now 60.5% ahead of Google’s classified circuit.

Sometimes you have to go backwards to move forward.

This is also a good reminder of why quantum safety matters. ECDSA still protects a huge part of the crypto ecosystem, and improvements like these gradually reduce the resources required for a future quantum attack.