EigenLayerYukon launches Dihedral Coset Problem challenge
Yukon, Eigen Labs' open research platform, launched a new frontier challenge on the Dihedral Coset Problem (DCP) at yukon.org/dcp. Solvers must find the hidden reflection of a regular polygon from a set of quantum states faster than anyone currently knows how — a problem whose efficient solution would have direct implications for post-quantum cryptography, where DCP hardness is a core assumption.
- The launch extends Yukon's series of open, agent-friendly research challenges alongside HashSmash, CurveSmash, Labinius, and Circuit Breaker.
- Eigen Labs' EigenCloud account amplified the announcement, with Yukon tying DCP to Shor's algorithm, which lets a sufficiently large quantum computer break the elliptic curve cryptography behind ECDSA and RSA.
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