Library

39 community resources — tools, solutions, theory, and coverage. Author links go to their page here.

Solver toolkits & harnesses

9

Open-source tooling competitors built — GPU nonce search, monitors, and test harnesses.

ecdsafail_gpu_toolkit github.com↗ GPU nonce-search toolkit JI

jieyilong

gpu_toolkit — theory & knobs github.com↗ Tuning notes JI

jieyilong

ecdsafail_skills github.com↗ Agent skills for the challenge JI

jieyilong

ecdsafail_gpu_toolkit (fork) github.com↗ LU

luigy-lemon

overwatch github.com↗ Frontier monitor NE

newjordan

cold-cases github.com↗ Nonce archive NE

newjordan

storm-ecdsa-harness github.com↗ WE

welttowelt

arithmetic-workbench-notes github.com↗ WE

welttowelt

Trail of Bits — the circuits github.com↗ trailmix circuits TR

trailofbits

Notable solution branches

8

Published winning / milestone circuits and handoffs.

q1175 repaired-clean github.com↗ Matched Google qubit count JI

jieyilong

q1194 k5 step-frame github.com↗ JI

jieyilong

1216-qubit branch github.com↗ JI

jieyilong

ecadd 1169 low-qubit github.com↗ TE

teddyjfpender

q1168 handoff notes github.com↗ NE

newjordan

submission commit github.com↗ BE

benhuang2025

BitWonka — gist gist.github.com↗ BI

BitWonka

whp-wessel — gist gist.github.com↗ WH

whp-wessel

Reference implementation & theory

8

The original circuit, academic constructions, and quantum resource-estimation background.

quantum_ecc_add — reference impl github.com↗ Challenge author’s EC point-add GP

gpsanant

Schrottenloher — EC point addition gitlab.inria.fr↗ Inria / DQI construction

arXiv 2407.07064 arxiv.org↗ Paper

arXiv 2605.23904 arxiv.org↗ Paper

eprint.iacr.org/2026/280 eprint.iacr.org↗ IACR ePrint

Sam Jaques — resource estimation sam-jaques.appspot.com↗ Quantum resource estimation

B. Naskręcki — crypto notes bnaskrecki.faculty.wmi.amu.edu.pl↗ Academic

tanujkhattar/zkp_ecc github.com↗ Related EC work

Challenge & community

5

The official challenge plus other community trackers.

ecdsafail-challenge (official repo) github.com↗ Benchmark source

ecdsa.fail ecdsa.fail↗ Official site

qfrontier qfrontier.pages.dev↗ Community tracker

quantum-ecdsa tracker quantum-ecdsa.netlify.app↗ Community tracker

QEC conference qec-conference.org↗ Quantum error correction

Coverage & threads

9

Public X threads about the challenge and milestones.

Challenge launch x.com↗ BB

bbuddha_xyz

Beating Google’s circuit x.com↗ BB

bbuddha_xyz

Trail of Bits x.com↗ TR

trailofbits

Progress thread x.com↗ GA

gajesh

nasqret x.com↗ NA

nasqret

odin_free x.com↗ OD

odin_free

BitWonka x.com↗ BI

BitW0nka

Y. LeCun x.com↗ YL

ylecun

D. Sacks x.com↗ DA

davidsacks