Ethereum's Justin Drake urges 'bunker mode' migration ahead of quantum threats
jedisct1 · x · 2026-10-08
- Justin Drake called on the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning "bunker mode": a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses whose pubkeys stay hidden behind hashes, starting with large holders moving funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. He stresses no panic and no rushed migration.
- asanso lists five research targets for breaking pre-quantum cryptography, ranked by difficulty: easiest is factoring the 1024-bit integer from the Micali–Schnorr spec (engineering and money, no new algorithm); harder targets include finding preimages of Poseidon over small fields via Gröbner basis-based algebraic cryptanalysis.
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