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Guy beats one of the best published quantum circuits for breaking ECDSA with AI

An amateur researcher using AI agents improved a published quantum circuit for breaking ECDSA by approximately 2x, launching an open competition at ecdsa.fail to challenge researchers and AI agents to beat Google's best classified circuit.

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Guy beats one of the best published quantum circuits for breaking ECDSA with AI
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I beat one of the best published quantum circuits for breaking Bitcoin. And I have no formal training in quantum cryptography. Using just AI agents, I improved it by ~2x. But I haven’t beat Google’s best classified circuit yet. So, today I'm launching ecdsa(dot)fail -- an open competition for researchers, autoresearchers, and agents to beat Google. Download the CLI, point your agent at it, and start optimizing.

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