Measuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort - Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/measuring-human-cryptanalysis-effort.html
Schneier on SecurityMeasuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort - Schneier on SecurityMatthew 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 la