IonQ publishes blueprint for breaking 256-bit encryption in 26 days

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IonQ Publishes World’s First Fully Compiled, End-to-End Blueprint for Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic-Curve Signatures

September 8, 2026 7:45 AM EDT

IonQ's full-stack platform spans algorithms, architecture, and error correction and is powerfully positioned to help secure the world as Q-Day timeline accelerates

COLLEGE PARK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the worlds leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, today published the first complete, end-to-end fault-tolerant resource estimate for running Shors algorithm. The historic paper by IonQs research team uses the recently published Walking Cat architecture to demonstrate how a specific application can be optimized for a trapped-ion quantum computer. This work concludes that a... More