Measuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort
Matthew Green has a new site that tries to estimate the number of cryptanalyst-hours that have been spent analyzing different public-key algorithms:
Abstract: We estimate how much public cryptanalysis each public-key assumption has received, using the literature itself as the instrument. From roughly sixteen thousand candidate papers we classify cryptanalytic work on ECDLP, structured and plain lattices, syndrome decoding and their comparators, then convert papers into estimated research-allocation years through a person-level author map. These publication-based estimates may substantially overstate actual time spent. Lattices have overtaken elliptic curves in this cumulative measure only recently; we express that history as inference budgets under stated productivity assumptions. The study was conducted by AI models: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5.5 built the pipeline, ran the analysis and wrote this page, with contributions from GPT-6 Astra. Matthew Green set the questions, made the key methodological decisions and oversaw the work.
There are a lot of caveats to this analysis. It relies on published work, so anything unpublished does not count. This includes both academic cryptanalysis that didn’t result in a paper, and intelligence agency cryptanalysis done in secret. But it’s a good first stab at a metric of this sort.
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A friend of mine and his family were destroyed by these corrupt M0rm0ns in ID,
and their only crime was/is – being immigrants.
ID Governor – Brad Little
Ada County Sheriff – Matt Clifford
Ada County Prosecutor – Jan Bennetts
Ada County Prosecutor – Brittany Ford
ID AG – Raul Labrador
ID US/Federal Judge – David C. Nye
ID US/Federal Judge – Amanda K. Brailsford
Boise Police Department,
FBI office in Boise ID.
The Shriners of ID.
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and may they all receive ten-fold of what they have made an innocent American Family
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