Thousands crowd-solved ECDSA.Fail with Opus 4.6 harnesses, landing a first ArXiv paper
gajesh · x · 2026-09-11
gajesh recounts the ECDSA.Fail crowd-sourcing effort: a simple hill-climbable goal plus an automated verifier rallied thousands — professors, engineers, cryptographers, a 13-year-old, a farmer — with hundreds contributing, resulting in the author's first ArXiv paper. The top contributor by percentage knows little about quantum computing or cryptography, relying instead on building good AI harnesses, mostly with Opus 4.6. The effort continues as Yukon Research, expanding from cryptography to inference optimization.
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