Open-source consortium
Preparing cryptography and Bitcoin for the quantum era.
EchoWave Cyber Lab is an open research collective working at the intersection of quantum computing, cryptography, and Bitcoin — publishing what we learn and shipping the tools to act on it.
Three research pillars
What quantum computers can actually do to cryptography, how big they need to be, and how close they are.
- Shor & Grover
- Resource estimates
- Error correction
- Q-day timelines
Post-quantum algorithms, hybrid constructions, and practical migration patterns for real systems.
- ML-KEM
- ML-DSA
- SLH-DSA
- Crypto-agility
Which coins are quantum-exposed, what the protocol can do about it, and open tooling to measure it.
- Key exposure
- Output types
- PQ signature proposals
- Wallet hygiene
The post-quantum transition has a size cost
Post-quantum keys and signatures are tens of times larger than the elliptic-curve ones they replace. That matters for every protocol with tight space limits — Bitcoin most of all.
- secp256k1 public key
- 33 B
- what Bitcoin uses today
- ML-KEM-768 public key
- 1,184 B
- FIPS 203
- ML-DSA-65 signature
- 3,309 B
- FIPS 204, vs ~72 B ECDSA
Open-source projects
All projects →pqc-playground
Hands-on ML-KEM key exchange and ML-DSA signatures, plus a size comparison against secp256k1 and X25519.
btc-toolkit
Decode addresses, scripts, and PSBTs, and see when each output reveals its public key to a future quantum attacker.
quantum-lab
Grover search and Shor factoring, simulated exactly, with notes on what the algorithms mean for real keys.