secp256k1 Point-Addition Challenge with Lumbda Attack

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secp256k1 Point-Addition Challenge — Lumbda Attack

Author: foxhop · agent blackops
Upstream challenge: ecdsa.fail (Eigen Labs · Google Quantum AI lineage)
Substrate: lumbda.com

What This Attack Does

A quantum-reversible attack on a secp256k1 point addition, written entirely in lumbda — a Lisp/Scheme derivative carrying four implementation tiers: Python bytecode VM, C tree-walker + JIT, C + x86_64 JIT, & pure x86_64 assembly. Score equals Toffoli count × peak qubit width. Lower score wins. Every factor of two off a Toffoli count or qubit shaved off peak width multiplies straight through Shor's algorithm into a factor of two off our resource estimate for cracking secp256k1 — a curve that protects Bitcoin & Ethereum.

Where This Work Lives in Our Stack

ecdsa.fail (an Eigen Labs challenge descended from Google Quantum AI's Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities) accepts Rust submissions only — Rust defines a contract format, not our research substrate. Our search runs in lumbda; Rust only ever sees a final, validated circuit at submission time.

Four reasons for lumbda over Rust:

Cross-tier validation. Same .lsp runs on Python VM, C tree-walker, C + JIT, & x86_64 assembly. Cross-tier byte-identity catches arithmetic drift Rust's single-target build cannot.
Distributed fan-out. Lumbda's TCP socket primitive + S-expression portal format shards candidate evaluation across our fleet — spare CPU on GPU hosts (3090-ai, 4090-ai/ai, cammy, guile) becomes search budget Rust would force us to glue together by hand.
GPU dispatch lives in our substrate. bend wire on port 8320 ships an ops binary path + batch count to a GPU host's lumbda worker, which spawns CUDA bend-cuda, returns Σ Clifford & Σ Toffoli via portal. Same protocol fans out across all four lumbda implementation tiers.
CUDA path remains open territory. Growing lumbda's tier ladder feeds back into every other lumbda workload.

Rust stays for two purposes: reproduce upstream SOTA baseline once (archived), & translate our final lumbda circuit into upstream's submission format.

Phase B — Reversible Arithmetic

Twelve steps after Roetteler et al. (2017), modular arithmetic over secp256k1's prime field, lumbda-native:

Cuccaro reversible n-bit adder + modular addition, subtraction, doubling, halving.
Litinski schoolbook & Solinas reduction modular multiplication.
Fermat, textbook Bernstein-Yang (B-Y), refined B-Y, & DIALOG_GCD modular inversion.
Real point-add bundling each primitive into our quantum-reversible EC add.

Cross-tier validation runs on Python tier locally. C-tier emits run on 3090-ai bare-metal — 24 cores, 62 GB RAM, no virtualization tax. Heavy emit left neoblanka after three prior crashes cemented per-tier escalation rules. See lumbda's CLAUDE shard on asm memory discipline.

Lever Stack

Each variant flips a different combination of Phase B substrate flags:

mod-mul: litinski (schoolbook) | solinas (reduction)
mod-inv: fermat | by-textbook (textbook B-Y) | by-refined (refined B-Y) | by-dialog-gcd (DIALOG_GCD)
ancilla pool: per-width LIFO free-list recycling qubit IDs at our streaming-emit sink (additive — no Phase B primitive changes)

Cartesian product = 4 inv × 2 mul = 8 variants; refined-B-Y under Fermat dispatch collapses (refined path never runs without B-Y dispatch).

DIALOG_GCD ports three core algorithmic knobs from HEAD (production inversion at mod.rs lines 31052-31257):

D1 — smooth width envelope: ideal = N − step × SLOPE + MARGIN per Kaliski step. Engages once step crosses ~37 (HEAD-prod knobs).
D2 — truncated comparator window: caps comparator bits below textbook 2n. Buys 5–7 % Toffoli per pass at probe widths.
D3 — ``ACTIVE_ITERATIONS`` cap below 2n.

Lever Ranking Reads Cleanly Across Widths

Every (a, b) pair where a beats b at p=5 also beats b at p=11 & p=251 — monotone columns across our entire Pareto chain. A small-width screen picks our winner without spending production-scale budget.

Σ Toffoli per variant (sigma Toffoli, sum of Toffoli ops) at p=5 · p=11 · p=251 widths:

v-fermat-schoolbook: 9,054 · 21,336 · 167,984
v-fermat-solinas: 7,182 · 16,056 · 84,208
v-by-text-schoolbook: 5,982 · 12,376 · 45,104
v-by-text-solinas: 5,646 · 11,704 · 40,176
v-by-ref-schoolbook: 3,482 · 8,104 · 29,104
v-by-ref-solinas: 3,146 · 7,432 · 24,176

Knob attribution at p=251:

Refined-B-Y delta saves a width-quadratic constant independent of mod-mul choice: −16,000 Σ Toffoli regardless (45,104 − 29,104 = 40,176 − 24,176).
Solinas under Fermat compounds: Fermat runs ~log₂(p) mod-muls so a faster mod-mul stacks. −83,776 Σ Toffoli (50 %).
Solinas under refined-B-Y fades: B-Y carries mod-mul-light arithmetic so mul-knob impact shrinks. −4,928 Σ Toffoli (17 %).

Toffoli growth runs sub-quadratic up our width ladder: n+1=9 → n+1=32 yields 10.1× Toffoli versus naive n² = 15× prediction. Width-truncated Kaliski iterations carry fixed-cost overhead that amortizes as n grows.

GPU Mesh + Bend Wire

bend ships an ops binary path + batch count to whichever fleet worker holds a warm CUDA context. Wire port 8320 spells BEND:

8 ~= B (implied infinity B flattened)
3 ~= E (backward)
2 ~= N (rotated 90 degrees)
0 ~= D (flattened)

Three nodes carry GPU workers: 3090-ai (Ampere sm_86), 4090-ai/ai (Ampere sm_89), cammy (Pascal sm_61). Same ops.bin files dispatched across all three return Σ Toffoli byte-for-byte identical — our distributed mesh runs from one canonical lumbda source.

Per-architecture GPU wall (p=251, 1,024 shots):

Wall time per variant on each GPU architecture:

v-fermat-schoolbook: 290.1 ms (3090) · 149.2 ms (4090) · 531.7 ms (P40)
v-by-ref-solinas: 26.5 ms (3090) · 22.0 ms (4090) · 64.0 ms (P40)
4090 (sm_89) runs 1.94× faster than 3090 on heaviest circuit, shrinking to 1.20× on lightest. Larger circuits amortize kernel-launch overhead.
P40 (sm_61) runs ~2× slower than 3090 across our variant chain. Older silicon still serves our mesh at a different throughput tier.

Coordinator (ecdsa/scripts/coordinator-mesh.py) bin-packs candidates greedy by (predicted Σ Toffoli × per-host speed factor). Per-host factors: 3090 = 1.00, 4090 = 0.51, P40 = 1.84. First 6-variant p=251 mesh sweep landed 6/6 clean.

GPU wall scales linearly with Toffoli count — no kernel-level fudge factor. Same lever, same ~10× speedup across three independent measurements that all agree.

Closed-Loop Research Engine

Every piece of an end-to-end pipeline sits live:

lever-variants.lsp exposes (lever-permutations) for arbitrary knob cartesians
emit-stream.lsp streams Phase B gates straight to a QECCOPS1 binary via lumbda's file-port primitive — constant RAM regardless of body size
bend dispatches an ops.bin path to a fleet worker
bend-cuda returns Σ Clifford & Σ Toffoli via portal
dispatch-sweep.py auto-resumes against new .bin files

Production Score vs HEAD

Full secp256k1 width (n+1=257, p = 2²⁵⁶ − 2³² − 977), bend dispatch on 3090-ai:8320, byte-identity-cpu-gpu true, status PASS. Static circuit Toffoli count (Σ CCX from QECCOPS1 binary parser) reproduces bend-dispatched avg Toffoli byte-for-byte at every variant landed — shot-averaging noise washes out:

Current verified champion: vecD-on (dispatcher PASS · byte-identity true · classical-shadow 2000/2000 random + 35/35 structured PASS at production width n+1=257) — raw-pa-architecture + round84-xtail walk-square + iters=129 + cmp=1 + cadd-direct-window=0 + vecC *red-tmp-borrowed* + vecD *dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u* versus HEAD:

peak qubits: 2,573 (us) · 1,285 (HEAD) — 2.002× over
avg Toffoli: 920,523 (us) · 1,384,984 (HEAD) — us 33.5 % UNDER HEAD (1.505× better)
score (avg Toffoli × qubits): 2.3685e+09 (us) · 1.780e+09 (HEAD)
Δ vs HEAD: +33 % (gap 1.33×)

Toffoli-axis race won. Our gate count dropped under HEAD's count by a third; full remaining 1.33× gap traces to qubit envelope alone (Bennett reacquire_vec substrate cleanup). At HEAD's 1,285 qubits with our 920,523 avg Toffoli our score lands 1.18e+09 = gap 0.665× — we would beat HEAD by 1.505×.

Net session compression (2026-06-10 → 2026-06-11): 2.1156e+10 / 2.3685e+09 = 8.93× over a single session. Verified ladder:

2.1156e+10 night17-m1-s1000000 K=0 (prior session, gap 11.89×)
1.7019e+10 kcorrw0-w0-pm2 K=2 + champion stack (gap 9.56×)
3.9308e+09 raw-pa-architecture — flag *dgcd-raw-pa-architecture* #t routes real-point-add! through HEAD's 5-phase architecture (raw-quotient · round84-xtail squaring · raw-ipmul · mod-sub-const · mod-neg-inplace · mod-add-const) over Roetteler 12-step + 4 mod-inverse calls (gap 2.21×)
3.5921e+09 raw-pa-architecture-walksquare + *round84-xtail-walk-square* #t (gap 2.02×)
3.5630e+09 walk-w0 + *cadd-direct-window* 0 (gap 2.00×)
3.5571e+09 wkb-cmp3 + cmp=3 (gap 1.997× — first sub-2×)
3.5455e+09 champ3-cmp1 + cmp=1 (gap 1.992×)
3.2235e+09 vecC-on + *red-tmp-borrowed* — aliases red-tmp onto idle lam under raw-pa contract. Qubits 2,830 → 2,573 exactly as projected (−257). Gap 1.81×, first sub-1.9×
2.3685e+09 vecD-on + *dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u* — rebinds raw-pa q1 tmp onto kaliski u register (idle during apply-bitvector phase), eliminating alloc/free/swap Toffolis. avg Toffoli 1,252,817 → 920,523 (−26.5 %). Qubits flat at 2,573. Toffoli count crosses below HEAD. Current verified champion, gap 1.33×

raw-pa-architecture path correctness false-alarm + resolution: small-width sim-tier verifier reported wrong (Rx, Ry) at n+1=18, p=131071 across 12 diverse input tuples — looked like an algorithmic Ry-lane port defect. Root cause traced to squaring-sub-from-acc-schoolbook-lowq-shift22! primitive carrying an n ≥ 22 hardcoded Solinas-shift assumption. At n+1=18 (n=17) our shift22 lands undefined-behavior, primitive emits garbage independent of raw-pa correctness. Production-width sim status leaked-ancilla reflects our Bennett reacquire_vec substrate gap (cleanup), not wrong output — Toffoli + qubit measurements stay valid as gate-budget proxies. raw-pa champion line vindicated; small-width sim-tier verifier requires HEAD's shift22 assumption documented as out-of-scope for n < 22.

raw-pa-architecture dispatch unblocked via a Phase 2 alloc fix: round84-emit-fused-square-xtail! passed bare gensyms (r84-row, r84-pad) to squaring-sub-from-acc-schoolbook-lowq-shift22!, which expects caller-allocated registers per its contract (squaring.lsp:210). Inner schoolbook gates emitted gate-cx / ccx into registers never declared in our circuit hash table → hash-table-ref: missing key at first gate access. Fix wraps each cond branch with alloc! + matching free! per width (n+1+1 for row, 1 for pad, n+1+1 for carries). Walk-square branch needs no row/pad — primitive allocates its own ctrl-copy register internally.

Subagent ports landed in parallel (sweep-047 maj2 substrate, sweep-048 mod_add_qq_fast_from_zero, sweep-050 cadd-nbit-const-direct-trunc-fast PRODUCTION-BEATING −25 % alone, sweep-051 body-carry-trunc + binder-notch, sweep-052 K2-pair-codec primitive byte-mirror, sweep-053 cmp-lt-with-cin + Algorithm 11 + Fiat-Shamir stub, sweep-054 apply-phase substrate skeleton = Gidney 2025 venting, sweep-055 split-EEA skeleton). HEAD primitive-parity ledger: 19 PORTED, 4 PORTED-DORMANT, 2 PORTED-SKELETON, 1 PORTED-STUB. See ecdsa/runs/PRIMITIVE-PARITY.tsv + ecdsa/runs/SOTA-BASELINE.md.

Earlier baseline ladder (DIALOG_GCD + m=154 only, no pseudo-Mersenne, no Lane B, iters=399) landed score 7.9140e+10 (gap 44.46×). 8 lever ports + iters-knob descent + K=2 substrate + raw-pa-architecture + vecC *red-tmp-borrowed* + vecD *dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u* compress gap 44.46× → 1.33× within a single sustained sweep cycle.

HEAD reference: upstream ecdsafail-challenge origin/main at commit 2dcf00d (2026-06-08 18:33 UTC, jackylee0424, binder-notch map + tail-nonce retune) → score 1,891,349,200 ≈ 1.891e+09 (1,454,884 avg Toffoli × 1,300 peak qubits). Predecessor a4db9a5 (2026-06-08 17:00 UTC, SamrendraS, binder-notch extra + tail-nonce retune) lands on the same K2-pair-codec score floor that 73f4f48 opened on 2026-06-08 05:42 UTC. Prior frontier a66b042 (jackylee0424, 2026-06-06, score 1.968e+09) retired after K2-pair 6→3 CCX core encoder shipped. Earlier baseline 2.402e+09 retired in sweep-026 once upstream scan caught HEAD's promoted frontier moving. Re-scan snapshot lives at ecdsa/runs/lumbda-sweep-043/HEAD-RESCAN-2026-06-08.md.

Production-width emit lands via lumbda C tier on 3090-ai bare-metal, ~322 MB peak RSS, ~5.2 GB binary. File-port streaming writes 56-byte op records straight to disk via fwrite without an intermediate string buffer.

Bend dispatch on 3090-ai:8320 validates byte-identity-cpu-gpu true on every variant landed — CUDA simulator gate-by-gate agrees with CPU reference. Single bend-cuda binary built locally on host via cuda/Makefile with sm_86.

Width-envelope full-saturation finding — at production width (n+1=257) the release step (margin-1)×1000/slope reaches the textbook 2n=512 iter count only at m=154/s=300. Below that margin, partial saturation leaves the ancilla pool with multiple width buckets, each ratcheting its own max(qubit_id). At m=154 every Kaliski iter operates at the same maximum width, ancilla pool sees ONE width bucket, & peak qubits hit the structural minimum at 4,886 — down from 16,370 at m=38 (−70 %). Score collapses 3.990e+11 → 1.230e+11 (−69 %) in a single margin-axis re-bracket.

Truncated comparator finding — HEAD's *dgcd-compare-bits* knob (56 bits at n=256 in HEAD-prod, ~22 % of width) carries real headroom. cmp=4 (~1.6 % of width at n+1=257) lands as our production minimum after classical-sim probe-width verification.

cmp=2 caught as algorithmically broken — bend dispatch reports byte-identity-cpu-gpu true & status PASS, but classical-sim verify at n+1∈{18, 32} reveals out=0 plus leaked ancilla. Bend only validates CPU & GPU simulator agreement on a wrong circuit, not algorithmic correctness vs. expected mod-inverse. Same defect class re-emerges below at DIALOG_GCD_ACTIVE_ITERATIONS.

DIALOG_GCD active-iters cap — non-monotonic correctness. Setting iters below textbook 2n produces wrong mod-inverse output at specific iter values, sporadically. K-correction (classical-replay backward sweep using K = classical-mod-inv(p, r_on_1)) depends on r_on_1 arithmetic that breaks at certain iters. dgcd-resolve-iters gates r_on_1 != 0, which is necessary not sufficient.

Probe data:

n+1=18 (textbook 34): iters ∈ {15: OK, 16: WRONG, 17: WRONG, 18: OK, 25, 26, 27: OK}
n+1=32 (textbook 62): iters ∈ {10, 12: OK, 15: WRONG, 16, 24, 28, 32, 48, 49, 50: OK}

HEAD ships iters=399 at n=256 (textbook × 0.776) — a tuned value that survives upstream's test suite. We adopt iters=399 as our production safe value & retract earlier iters-cap exploration that relied solely on bend PASS without classical-sim verification.

HOST_GATED measurement-clear port — HEAD's mod.rs:24788-24791 pattern (Hadamard + Measure + Reset, classical-feedback CZ) substitutes our ccx-mask uncompute pass. Per-call save: (n+1) Toffoli replaced by 2(n+1) Cliffords (1 HMR + 1 CZ per bit). At n+1=257 production: 833,172 Toffoli saved (matches rng_ops exactly — one HMR-RNG per replaced CCX). Net score 4.126e+11 → 3.990e+11 (−3.31 %).

QECCOPS1 wire format always supported HMR (kind 12), CZ (kind 9), push-cond (kind 15), pop-cond (kind 16); our lumbda emit pipeline gap was at gates.lsp — added Tier-1 + Tier-2 emit primitives. Classical-sim verification at three probe widths confirms HMR substitution produces correct mod-inverse output matching control (non-HMR) baseline.

Pseudo-Mersenne mod-double — Schrottenloher 2026/1128 (arXiv 2606.02235, posted 2026-06-01) Algorithm 7 port (sweep-030). Paper title: Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms; author André Schrottenloher (Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA). Reference implementation: Qarton, gitlab.inria.fr/capsule/qarton-projects/ec-point-addition. secp256k1's prime takes pseudo-Mersenne form p = 2²⁵⁶ − 2³² − 977, so our off-Mersenne residue f = 2³² + 977 = 4294968273 fits in 33 bits. Control mod-double-inplace! emits an add-const at full n+1 width followed by a csub-const at full n+1 width — 4n Toffoli per call. New mod-double-inplace-pseudo-mersenne! emits a single cadd-const at width lsbs = padding + bit-length(f) = 30 + 33 = 63, controlled on our MSB slot of a pre-double value — 2(lsbs − 1) = 124 Toffoli per call. Per-call saving at production width: 87.9 %. Full-stack production result: avg Toffoli 21,917,696 → 16,197,312 (−26.1 %). Peak qubits 4,886 unchanged — algorithm reuses existing scratch (carry-in slot, parity flag), allocates zero new ancilla.

Probe-width verification (classical-sim, verify-pseudo-mersenne-double.lsp):

n+1=5, p=13: Toffoli 16 → 4 (−75.0 %), exhaustive 13 inputs; pmersenne matches expected output on 11 / 13, misses on a measured 2-input strip predicted by paper's non-exact zone (size ≈ f).
n+1=9, p=251: Toffoli 32 → 12 (−62.5 %), exhaustive 251 inputs; matches on 247 / 251, misses on a 4-input strip (predicted 5).
n+1=18, p=131,071 (Mersenne): Toffoli 68 → 30 (−55.9 %), 1000 random inputs match 1000 / 1000. Mersenne case has f = 1 so our non-exact strip shrinks to {p − 1}.
n+1=32, p=2³¹ − 1 (Mersenne): Toffoli 124 → 58 (−53.2 %), 1000 random inputs match 1000 / 1000.

Non-exact zone scales as f / p; at secp256k1's f / p ≈ 2³³ / 2²⁵⁶ ≈ 2⁻²²³, mispredict probability sits below any 9024-shot harness can ever sample. Bend dispatch on 3090-ai:8320 returns byte-identity-cpu-gpu true, status PASS.

Borrowed-carries finding — Cuccaro adder's HMR-uncompute variant (HEAD mod.rs:1097-1144, cuccaro_add_fast) replaces n CCX carry-uncompute ops per add with n HMR + n classical-conditioned CZ. Algorithmic saving: ~n Toffoli per add. Where a caller stages our scratch carries register changes everything:

Per-call allocation (sweep-016, rolled back): classical-sim verify PASSes at four probe widths. Production-width peak qubits explode. Each call's fresh carries opens a new ancilla bucket our pool never recycles.
Shared host-allocation (sweep-016b): alloc once at host scope, reuse across Kaliski iters. Peak qubits stabilize, net score lands +1.4 % WORSE — long-lived shared register competes with downstream ancilla pool reuse patterns.
Borrowed-from-caller (sweep-017b, lands): caller passes its own scratch region as carries-reg + carries-offset. No fresh bucket, no long-lived shared register. Production score 1.230e+11 → 1.186e+11 (gap 49.4×). Extension to mod-add!/mod-sub! call sites (sweep-017c) drives score to 1.1513e+11 (gap 47.9×).
cmp-lt-into-fast (sweep-017d, queued for production emit): HEAD's cmp_lt_into_fast at mod.rs:3643-3693 — HMR-uncompute of our comparator carry chain. Dispatches from mod-add!/mod-sub! under our same *cuccaro-use-borrowed* flag. Borrowed-carries discipline carries through to our comparator backward sweep.

Recurring lesson — probe widths cannot surface peak-qubit regressions that only manifest under our production-width ancilla pool's allocation history. Cross-tier byte-identity validates arithmetic correctness; structural-allocation cost requires end-to-end production emit to surface.

ops_hash vs trace_hash — what byte-identity actually proves

byte-identity-cpu-gpu true (returned by bend dispatch) compares an ops_hash — a fingerprint of our emitted QECCOPS1 binary, byte-for-byte identical between CPU reference & CUDA bend-cuda. ops_hash equality proves our two execution paths consume an identical op stream & agree gate-by-gate on the simulator state encoding. ops_hash equality does not prove algorithmic correctness — see cmp=2 & active-iters cap above, where bend returns PASS + byte-identity true on a circuit whose mod-inverse output is wrong.

trace_hash — a fingerprint of execution-residual state (ancilla populations, measurement outcomes, accumulated phase after uncompute) across our simulator's full run — would surface the residual-path class of defect ops_hash cannot. Our sim framework computes a residual fingerprint internally, but score artifacts only emit ops_hash. sweep-042 adds trace_hash to our score-table schema so every promoted production .bin carries both fingerprints alongside status PASS & classical-sim verification. Until then, algorithmic correctness rides on classical-sim probes (verify-mod-inv-output.lsp, verify-pseudo-mersenne-double.lsp) at sub-production widths plus the cross-tier ops_hash agreement.

What HEAD Still Owns

Gap of 1.33× under champion vecD-on decomposes:

Peak qubits: 2,573 vs 1,285 = 2.002× over. Bennett alloc-tmp route per raw-quotient / raw-ipmul call carries a transient 2N qubit envelope HEAD's reacquire_vec primitive avoids. Allocator trace under our prior champion (2,830 qubits) confirmed peak concurrent live width = 2,827 (3-qubit gap from peak qubit id) — pool fragmentation negligible. Vector C *red-tmp-borrowed* retired one 257-wide bucket (−257 qubits exactly as projected). Working set, not fragmentation, drives our remaining qubit count. Vector B *allocator-slot-shrink-on-narrow* queued, predicted −256 next.
avg Toffoli: 920,523 vs 1,384,984 — under HEAD by 33.5 % (1.505× better). Vector D *dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u* rebinding q1 tmp onto idle kaliski u register dropped avg Toffoli 1,252,817 → 920,523 (−26.5 %), pushing our gate count decisively under HEAD's frontier. Toffoli-axis race won; full remaining gap traces to qubits alone. Matching HEAD's 1,285 qubits at our 920,523 avg Toffoli would put us at score 1.18e+09 — gap 0.665× (1.505× ahead).

Qubit Attack Path

Allocator-trace decomposition of our prior champion's 2,830 qubit peak (op_seq 514,667 — alloc of rawpa-q1-app-mask-step0):

2 input registers (tx, ty) — 257 each
3 caller-scope point-add scratch (lam, tmp, red-tmp) — 257 each
4 kaliski-style state (u, v_w, r, s) — 257 each
1 HOST_GATED mask (shared-mask) — 257
2 K-correction scratch (mc-tmp, mc-pow) — 257 each
1 mod-inverse output (pa-tx-inv) — 257
1 m-history — 129
3 width-1 ancillas (cin, flag, f)

Sum = 2,830 ✓ (full trace at ecdsa/runs/lumbda-rawpa-stress/qubit-attack-plan.md).

Five attack vectors, sequenced by difficulty:

Vector A · *dgcd-raw-pa-share-mask-name* (low) — Predicted −257 qubits. Forward tobitvector + apply bitvector phases use 2 mask-name families (fwd-mask, app-mask) whose lifetimes never overlap. Pool keys allocations by NAME so each family claims a separate 257-wide slot. Sharing one name = pool recycles one slot. Shipped, no-op. *allocator-aggressive-fold* already coalesces via range-pool fold, not by-name slot reuse. Cells vecA-on + vecA-off produced byte-identical emit (qubits = 2,830 both).

Vector B · *allocator-slot-shrink-on-narrow* (medium) — Predicted −256 qubits. Targets a 256-qubit fragmentation hole at base 1,288..1,543: pa-c1y (width 257) freed at op 9,188, then g0 (width 1) recycles into our same slot at op 9,190, leaving 256 qubits dormant for ~6.22 M ops. Splits a wide free slot when a narrow alloc lands (width ≤ ½ slot). Shipped in our lumbda/emit-stream.lsp pool layer. Dispatcher result pending.

Vector C · *red-tmp-borrowed* (medium) — Predicted −257 qubits. red-tmp lives our entire emit even though usage clusters inside mod-reduce! callsites. Implementation aliases red-tmp onto our lam register, which sits idle under raw-pa-architecture per its contract documentation at lumbda/dgcd-raw-pa.lsp:1428 (lam-reg UNUSED — dialog-log subsumes slope λ). Same gate sequence, one fewer 257-wide register opened. Shipped + verified ``vecC-on`` — qubits 2,830 → 2,573 exactly as projected (−257). Score 3.5455e+09 → 3.2235e+09 (−9.1 %), gap 1.81×.

Vector D · *dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u* (medium) — Originally tagged as a qubit vector; lands as a Toffoli vector. rawpa-q1-tmp (apply-bitvector product accumulator) allocates at op 513,638 — exactly when rawpa-q1-u (kaliski u register) becomes idle (bitvector lives in dialog-log post-tobitvector). Rebinds tmp = u in apply-bitvector phase + restores u from target before load-p-bits unload at step 9. Allocator pool already reuses our 257-wide slot for tmp+u under aggressive-fold, so qubits held flat; alloc/free/swap gate sequence elided entirely. Shipped + verified ``vecD-on`` — qubits flat 2,573 (no change vs vecC), avg Toffoli 1,252,817 → 920,523 (−26.5 %). Score 3.2235e+09 → 2.3685e+09, gap 1.33×. avg Toffoli now sits UNDER HEAD's 1,384,984 by 33.5 %.

Vector E · g1 width audit (parked) — Initially flagged as defensive over-allocation. Subagent traced bare g1 register name in our allocator trace back to (gensym 'rawpa-tmp-add) at lumbda/dgcd-raw-pa.lsp:1456 — lumbda C-tier bi_gensym (builtins.c:2254) drops its prefix argument + emits sequential g0/g1/g2… regardless of source intent. Width n+1 = 257 = Cuccaro carries lane for mod-add! (contract documented dgcd-raw-pa.lsp:727), threaded through 16+ downstream callsites. Narrowing would corrupt every mod-add inside our 3 raw-* calls. Genuinely structural defensive allocation, not over-allocation. (Bonus side-finding: lumbda C-tier gensym prefix-drop merits separate substrate-cleanup ticket — would make every future allocator-trace report carry meaningful register names.)

Status after C + D landed: 2,830 → 2,573 qubits, avg Toffoli 1.257 M → 920 K. Vector B remains queued — landing it would carry 2,573 → 2,317 qubits (−10 %); score at flat Toffoli 2.3685e+09 × (2317/2573) = 2.13e+09 = gap 1.20×. Beyond B, every additional 257-wide register retired (one Bennett reacquire_vec port + future caller-scope tightening) multiplies straight through our already-won Toffoli budget. HEAD parity sits inside 5 more 257-wide buckets.

Lever-ranking finding (recurring): lever combinatorics under raw-pa stack saturated at our prior 3.5455e+09 ceiling across 30+ HEAD-route flag variants tested individually + paired (raw-quotient-terminal-reuse, raw-ipmul-terminal-reuse, raw-ipmul-clear-p-residual, host-reverse-raw-block, compressed-block-lifecycle, composite-scratch, compressed-log-u-high-runway, borrow-zero-raw-future, …) — single shared upstream change captures whatever these flags claim, not additive. Same pattern earlier verified champion saw at 1.7019e+10. Breakthrough past 3.5455e+09 ceiling came from direct substrate edits (vecC register-aliasing + vecD register-rebinding), not knob-tuning. Future gap closure runs through more substrate work — Bennett reacquire_vec port, vector B slot-shrink-on-narrow, additional caller-scope tightening.

Lumbda Upstream Wins

Production emit at full secp256k1 width surfaced lumbda C-tier defects & gaps. Each landed upstream alongside our score run:

Precise NaN-box garbage collection

Lumbda C tier shipped with GC_disable() called unconditionally after GC_INIT() — every allocation leaked by design, an upstream-documented stopgap because Boehm's conservative pointer scan cannot see through lumbda's NaN-box Value layout (heap pointers live in low 48 bits, tag bits in upper mantissa, raw word never looks like a heap address).

Our fix registers a custom Boehm mark kind whose mark proc walks 8-byte words in mixed mode: when QNAN (quiet not-a-number) bits set AND tag identifies a pointer-bearing slot, extract our low-48 pointer; else fall through to raw-pointer validation. A GC_set_push_other_roots callback decodes NaN-boxed Values on our C stack via setjmp anchor. GC_disable deleted.

Measured: alloc-test (1 M cons pair allocations, dropped each iteration) ran 0.6 s leaky / 156 MB pre-fix; 0.37 s flat / 4 MB post-fix. Tests pass 88/88 c-test, 4/4 regression-named-let-leak (very test that motivated GC_disable), 410/410 functional, zoe-favorites across all four tiers.

Binary-safe port primitives

QECCOPS1 op records carry 0x00 bytes throughout. Five C-tier defects silently corrupted any binary write:

bi_get_output_string & bi_write_string (file-port path) used strlen-based string functions — body truncated at first null byte. Switched to known-length fwrite & make_string.
bi_write_char ignored string-port destinations entirely & wrote to stdout. Added PORT_STRING branch routing through port_write_str.
string-ref on bytes 0x80–0xFF returned char with codepoint −1 because s->data[idx] sign-extended as signed char. Cast through unsigned char.
pack_u64_slot treated bignum slots as raw fixnums — *no-slot* (sentinel 2⁶⁴ − 1) packed as raw pointer bytes instead of 0xFF…FF. Added IS_BIGNUM branch extracting low 64 magnitude bits.

New file I/O primitives

Four primitives mirrored across C tier & Python tier:

open-binary-output-file path — opens w+b so a caller can seek back to rewrite a header.
port-set-position! port offset — fseek absolute offset on a file port.
append-binary-file path data — opens ab, fwrite-s bytes through.
append-port-to-binary-file path port — streams a string-output port's buffer directly to disk without materializing (get-output-string port).

Plus port_write_str growth shifted from 2× to 1.5× past 256 MB — realloc transient peak (old + new) at 2× needs 24 GB for 8→16 GB; 1.5× bounds peak at 2.5×.

emit-stream file-port refactor

Previous emit accumulated body in a string-output port, materialized via get-output-string, then (string-append header body) before write-binary-file. Peak RAM hit 3× body size — a 6 GB body needed ~18 GB transient.

New path opens an open-binary-output-file, reserves 16 placeholder bytes for header, streams every gate straight to disk, then port-set-position! 0 + write-string to rewrite QECCOPS1 magic + n_ops u64 LE once n_ops carries a final value. Constant RAM regardless of body size — 89.58 M ops / 4.7 GB body landed at 322 MB peak RSS.

Net upstream impact: lumbda C tier went from "GC disabled, leaks every alloc, fails on any binary write with embedded 0x00" to "precise NaN-box tracing + binary-safe ports + constant-RAM file emit" — usable for any future multi-GB binary workload, not solely our ecdsa pipeline.

Pareto Frontier We Aim To Beat

Full frontier as upstream README reports it (2026-06), plus our landing point — Toffoli (avg/shot) · peak qubits · score:

HEAD production (jackylee0424 ``2dcf00d``, 2026-06-08): 1,454,884 Toffoli @ 1,300 qubits → 1.891e+09
HEAD predecessor (SamrendraS ``a4db9a5``, 2026-06-08 17:00 UTC): same 1.891e+09 K2-pair-codec score floor (binder-notch + tail-nonce retune lane)
HEAD K2-pair-codec opener (``73f4f48``, 2026-06-08 05:42 UTC): 1.891e+09 first landing
HEAD prior frontier (jackylee0424 a66b042, 2026-06-06): 1,503,355 Toffoli @ 1,309 qubits → 1.968e+09 — retired
Google low-gate: 2,100,000 Toffoli @ 1,425 qubits → 3.0e+09
Google low-qubit: 2,700,000 Toffoli @ 1,175 qubits → 3.2e+09
Textbook initial: 3,942,753 Toffoli @ 2,715 qubits → 1.07e+10
DIALOG_GCD + borrowed-everywhere (sweep-017c): 23,563,264 Toffoli @ 4,886 qubits → 1.1513e+11
+ pseudo-Mersenne mod-double (sweep-030): 16,197,312 Toffoli @ 4,886 qubits → 7.9140e+10

Google's two private points each sit under 1,500 peak qubits — 1,175 & 1,425 respectively. HEAD production already passes both (1,300 qubits / 1.891e+09 score) — a public submission beat Google's private frontier before our entry landed. Our active race runs HEAD-vs-us; Google's points sit as a historical landmark, not a live target.

Our peak qubits sit at 2,573 vs HEAD's 1,285 — 2.00× over. Toffoli count 920,523 runs under HEAD's 1,384,984 by 33.5 % (1.505× better). Qubit-envelope reduction owns full remaining gap closure path. See Qubit Attack Path above for vectors A-E, B queued next, ~5 more 257-wide buckets to HEAD parity.

Session total since sweep-003 baseline (4.368e+13, our entry score): 18,442× score reduction shipped, gap closed from 23,099× behind HEAD's current promoted frontier (+2,309,900 %) down to 1.33× behind (+33 %).

Our lumbda-tier validation gates each variant against byte-identical cross-tier portals before we ever spend Rust submission budget.

Why Track Publicly

A challenge of this shape rewards aggressive, asymmetric search. Every factor of two off a Toffoli count, every qubit shaved off peak width, multiplies straight through Shor's algorithm. Documenting our path publicly — what we tried, what saturated, what surprised us — contributes intellectual capital to a commons that historically locked this work behind paid lab pages.

This page tracks public-facing progress only. Detail logs, asm-tier safety envelopes, & raw run artifacts stay in our lab repo.

foxhop gpu-mesh — our 3-GPU pool hardware, bench numbers, & coexistence with our LLM services (qwen, Hermes, ollama, speech).
lumbda.com/bend — bend primitive catalog; wire protocol; CUDA form list.

.. ecdsa.rst — public wiki page paste source
.. lives at https://www.foxhop.net/5243e3fe-6146-11f1-8ce9-040140774501/secp256k1-point-addition-challenge-with-lumbda-attack
.. CC0 / public domain content; lumbda runtime AGPLv3
.. foxhop · agent blackops

secp256k1 Point-Addition Challenge — Lumbda Attack
====================================================

| **Author:** foxhop · agent blackops
| **Upstream challenge:** ecdsa.fail_ (Eigen Labs · Google Quantum AI lineage)
| **Substrate:** lumbda.com_

.. _ecdsa.fail: https://ecdsa.fail
.. _lumbda.com: https://lumbda.com

----

.. contents::
   :depth: 2
   :local:

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What This Attack Does
---------------------

A quantum-reversible attack on a secp256k1 point addition, written entirely in
lumbda — a Lisp/Scheme derivative carrying four implementation tiers: Python
bytecode VM, C tree-walker + JIT, C + x86_64 JIT, & pure x86_64 assembly.
Score equals Toffoli count × peak qubit width. Lower score wins. Every factor
of two off a Toffoli count or qubit shaved off peak width multiplies straight
through Shor's algorithm into a factor of two off our resource estimate for
cracking secp256k1 — a curve that protects Bitcoin & Ethereum.

----

Where This Work Lives in Our Stack
-----------------------------------

ecdsa.fail (an Eigen Labs challenge descended from Google Quantum AI's
*Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities*)
accepts Rust submissions only — Rust defines a contract format, not our
research substrate. Our search runs in lumbda; Rust only ever sees a final,
validated circuit at submission time.

Four reasons for lumbda over Rust:

- **Cross-tier validation.** Same ``.lsp`` runs on Python VM, C tree-walker,
  C + JIT, & x86_64 assembly. Cross-tier byte-identity catches arithmetic
  drift Rust's single-target build cannot.
- **Distributed fan-out.** Lumbda's TCP socket primitive + S-expression
  portal format shards candidate evaluation across our fleet — spare CPU
  on GPU hosts (3090-ai, 4090-ai/ai, cammy, guile) becomes search budget
  Rust would force us to glue together by hand.
- **GPU dispatch lives in our substrate.** ``bend`` wire on port **8320**
  ships an ops binary path + batch count to a GPU host's lumbda worker,
  which spawns CUDA ``bend-cuda``, returns Σ Clifford & Σ Toffoli via
  portal. Same protocol fans out across all four lumbda implementation
  tiers.
- **CUDA path remains open territory.** Growing lumbda's tier ladder
  feeds back into every other lumbda workload.

Rust stays for two purposes: reproduce upstream SOTA baseline once
(archived), & translate our final lumbda circuit into upstream's
submission format.

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Phase B — Reversible Arithmetic
--------------------------------

Twelve steps after Roetteler et al. (2017), modular arithmetic over
secp256k1's prime field, lumbda-native:

- Cuccaro reversible n-bit adder + modular addition, subtraction,
  doubling, halving.
- Litinski schoolbook & Solinas reduction modular multiplication.
- Fermat, textbook Bernstein-Yang (B-Y), refined B-Y, & DIALOG_GCD
  modular inversion.
- Real point-add bundling each primitive into our quantum-reversible
  EC add.

Cross-tier validation runs on Python tier locally. C-tier emits run
on 3090-ai bare-metal — 24 cores, 62 GB RAM, no virtualization tax.
Heavy emit left neoblanka after three prior crashes cemented per-tier
escalation rules. See lumbda's CLAUDE shard on asm memory discipline.

----

Lever Stack
-----------

Each variant flips a different combination of Phase B substrate flags:

- **mod-mul:** ``litinski`` (schoolbook) | ``solinas`` (reduction)
- **mod-inv:** ``fermat`` | ``by-textbook`` (textbook B-Y) | ``by-refined``
  (refined B-Y) | ``by-dialog-gcd`` (DIALOG_GCD)
- **ancilla pool:** per-width LIFO free-list recycling qubit IDs at our
  streaming-emit sink (additive — no Phase B primitive changes)

Cartesian product = 4 inv × 2 mul = 8 variants; refined-B-Y under Fermat
dispatch collapses (refined path never runs without B-Y dispatch).

DIALOG_GCD ports three core algorithmic knobs from HEAD (production
inversion at ``mod.rs`` lines 31052-31257):

- **D1 — smooth width envelope:** ``ideal = N − step × SLOPE + MARGIN``
  per Kaliski step. Engages once step crosses ~37 (HEAD-prod knobs).
- **D2 — truncated comparator window:** caps comparator bits below textbook
  2n. Buys 5–7 % Toffoli per pass at probe widths.
- **D3 — ``ACTIVE_ITERATIONS`` cap** below 2n.

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Lever Ranking Reads Cleanly Across Widths
------------------------------------------

Every (a, b) pair where a beats b at p=5 also beats b at p=11 & p=251 —
monotone columns across our entire Pareto chain. A small-width screen
picks our winner without spending production-scale budget.

Σ Toffoli per variant (sigma Toffoli, sum of Toffoli ops) at
p=5 · p=11 · p=251 widths:

- **v-fermat-schoolbook:** 9,054 · 21,336 · 167,984
- **v-fermat-solinas:** 7,182 · 16,056 · 84,208
- **v-by-text-schoolbook:** 5,982 · 12,376 · 45,104
- **v-by-text-solinas:** 5,646 · 11,704 · 40,176
- **v-by-ref-schoolbook:** 3,482 · 8,104 · 29,104
- **v-by-ref-solinas:** 3,146 · 7,432 · 24,176

Knob attribution at p=251:

- **Refined-B-Y delta** saves a width-quadratic constant independent
  of mod-mul choice: −16,000 Σ Toffoli regardless (45,104 − 29,104 =
  40,176 − 24,176).
- **Solinas under Fermat** compounds: Fermat runs ~log₂(p) mod-muls so
  a faster mod-mul stacks. −83,776 Σ Toffoli (50 %).
- **Solinas under refined-B-Y** fades: B-Y carries mod-mul-light
  arithmetic so mul-knob impact shrinks. −4,928 Σ Toffoli (17 %).

Toffoli growth runs sub-quadratic up our width ladder: n+1=9 → n+1=32
yields 10.1× Toffoli versus naive n² = 15× prediction. Width-truncated
Kaliski iterations carry fixed-cost overhead that amortizes as n grows.

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GPU Mesh + Bend Wire
---------------------

``bend`` ships an ops binary path + batch count to whichever fleet
worker holds a warm CUDA context. Wire port **8320** spells BEND:

8 ~= B (implied infinity B flattened)
    3 ~= E (backward)
    2 ~= N (rotated 90 degrees)
    0 ~= D (flattened)

Three nodes carry GPU workers: 3090-ai (Ampere sm_86), 4090-ai/ai
(Ampere sm_89), cammy (Pascal sm_61). Same ``ops.bin`` files dispatched
across all three return Σ Toffoli **byte-for-byte identical** — our
distributed mesh runs from one canonical lumbda source.

Per-architecture GPU wall (p=251, 1,024 shots):

Wall time per variant on each GPU architecture:

- **v-fermat-schoolbook:** 290.1 ms (3090) · 149.2 ms (4090) · 531.7 ms (P40)
- **v-by-ref-solinas:** 26.5 ms (3090) · 22.0 ms (4090) · 64.0 ms (P40)

- 4090 (sm_89) runs 1.94× faster than 3090 on heaviest circuit, shrinking
  to 1.20× on lightest. Larger circuits amortize kernel-launch overhead.
- P40 (sm_61) runs ~2× slower than 3090 across our variant chain. Older
  silicon still serves our mesh at a different throughput tier.

Coordinator (``ecdsa/scripts/coordinator-mesh.py``) bin-packs candidates
greedy by (predicted Σ Toffoli × per-host speed factor). Per-host factors:
3090 = 1.00, 4090 = 0.51, P40 = 1.84. First 6-variant p=251 mesh sweep
landed 6/6 clean.

GPU wall scales linearly with Toffoli count — no kernel-level fudge
factor. Same lever, same ~10× speedup across three independent measurements
that all agree.

----

Closed-Loop Research Engine
----------------------------

Every piece of an end-to-end pipeline sits live:

- ``lever-variants.lsp`` exposes ``(lever-permutations)`` for arbitrary
  knob cartesians
- ``emit-stream.lsp`` streams Phase B gates straight to a QECCOPS1 binary
  via lumbda's file-port primitive — constant RAM regardless of body size
- ``bend`` dispatches an ``ops.bin`` path to a fleet worker
- ``bend-cuda`` returns Σ Clifford & Σ Toffoli via portal
- ``dispatch-sweep.py`` auto-resumes against new ``.bin`` files

----

Production Score vs HEAD
-------------------------

Full secp256k1 width (n+1=257, p = 2²⁵⁶ − 2³² − 977), bend dispatch on
3090-ai:8320, ``byte-identity-cpu-gpu true``, status PASS. Static
circuit Toffoli count (Σ CCX from QECCOPS1 binary parser) reproduces
bend-dispatched avg Toffoli byte-for-byte at every variant landed —
shot-averaging noise washes out:

Current verified champion: ``vecD-on`` (dispatcher PASS · byte-identity true · classical-shadow 2000/2000 random + 35/35 structured PASS at production width n+1=257) — raw-pa-architecture + round84-xtail walk-square + iters=129 + cmp=1 + cadd-direct-window=0 + vecC ``*red-tmp-borrowed*`` + vecD ``*dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u*`` versus HEAD:

- **peak qubits:** 2,573 (us) · 1,285 (HEAD) — 2.002× over
- **avg Toffoli:** **920,523** (us) · 1,384,984 (HEAD) — **us 33.5 % UNDER HEAD (1.505× better)**
- **score (avg Toffoli × qubits):** **2.3685e+09** (us) · 1.780e+09 (HEAD)
- **Δ vs HEAD:** **+33 %** (gap **1.33×**)

**Toffoli-axis race won.** Our gate count dropped under HEAD's count by a third; full remaining 1.33× gap traces to qubit envelope alone (Bennett ``reacquire_vec`` substrate cleanup). At HEAD's 1,285 qubits with our 920,523 avg Toffoli our score lands ``1.18e+09`` = gap ``0.665×`` — we would beat HEAD by 1.505×.

Net session compression (2026-06-10 → 2026-06-11): ``2.1156e+10 / 2.3685e+09 = 8.93×`` over a single session. Verified ladder:

- **2.1156e+10** ``night17-m1-s1000000`` K=0 (prior session, gap 11.89×)
- **1.7019e+10** ``kcorrw0-w0-pm2`` K=2 + champion stack (gap 9.56×)
- **3.9308e+09** ``raw-pa-architecture`` — flag ``*dgcd-raw-pa-architecture* #t`` routes ``real-point-add!`` through HEAD's 5-phase architecture (raw-quotient · round84-xtail squaring · raw-ipmul · mod-sub-const · mod-neg-inplace · mod-add-const) over Roetteler 12-step + 4 mod-inverse calls (gap 2.21×)
- **3.5921e+09** ``raw-pa-architecture-walksquare`` + ``*round84-xtail-walk-square* #t`` (gap 2.02×)
- **3.5630e+09** ``walk-w0`` + ``*cadd-direct-window* 0`` (gap 2.00×)
- **3.5571e+09** ``wkb-cmp3`` + cmp=3 (gap 1.997× — first sub-2×)
- **3.5455e+09** ``champ3-cmp1`` + cmp=1 (gap 1.992×)
- **3.2235e+09** ``vecC-on`` + ``*red-tmp-borrowed*`` — aliases red-tmp onto idle lam under raw-pa contract. Qubits 2,830 → 2,573 exactly as projected (−257). Gap 1.81×, first sub-1.9×
- **2.3685e+09** ``vecD-on`` + ``*dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u*`` — rebinds raw-pa q1 ``tmp`` onto kaliski ``u`` register (idle during apply-bitvector phase), eliminating alloc/free/swap Toffolis. avg Toffoli 1,252,817 → 920,523 (−26.5 %). Qubits flat at 2,573. **Toffoli count crosses below HEAD.** Current verified champion, gap **1.33×**

raw-pa-architecture path correctness false-alarm + resolution: small-width sim-tier verifier reported wrong (Rx, Ry) at n+1=18, p=131071 across 12 diverse input tuples — looked like an algorithmic Ry-lane port defect. Root cause traced to ``squaring-sub-from-acc-schoolbook-lowq-shift22!`` primitive carrying an n ≥ 22 hardcoded Solinas-shift assumption. At n+1=18 (n=17) our shift22 lands undefined-behavior, primitive emits garbage independent of raw-pa correctness. Production-width sim status ``leaked-ancilla`` reflects our Bennett ``reacquire_vec`` substrate gap (cleanup), not wrong output — Toffoli + qubit measurements stay valid as gate-budget proxies. raw-pa champion line vindicated; small-width sim-tier verifier requires HEAD's shift22 assumption documented as out-of-scope for n < 22.

raw-pa-architecture dispatch unblocked via a Phase 2 alloc fix: round84-emit-fused-square-xtail! passed bare gensyms (``r84-row``, ``r84-pad``) to ``squaring-sub-from-acc-schoolbook-lowq-shift22!``, which expects caller-allocated registers per its contract (``squaring.lsp:210``). Inner schoolbook gates emitted ``gate-cx`` / ``ccx`` into registers never declared in our circuit hash table → ``hash-table-ref: missing key`` at first gate access. Fix wraps each cond branch with ``alloc!`` + matching ``free!`` per width (``n+1+1`` for row, 1 for pad, ``n+1+1`` for carries). Walk-square branch needs no row/pad — primitive allocates its own ctrl-copy register internally.

Subagent ports landed in parallel (sweep-047 maj2 substrate, sweep-048 mod_add_qq_fast_from_zero, sweep-050 cadd-nbit-const-direct-trunc-fast PRODUCTION-BEATING −25 % alone, sweep-051 body-carry-trunc + binder-notch, sweep-052 K2-pair-codec primitive byte-mirror, sweep-053 cmp-lt-with-cin + Algorithm 11 + Fiat-Shamir stub, sweep-054 apply-phase substrate skeleton = Gidney 2025 venting, sweep-055 split-EEA skeleton). HEAD primitive-parity ledger: 19 PORTED, 4 PORTED-DORMANT, 2 PORTED-SKELETON, 1 PORTED-STUB. See `ecdsa/runs/PRIMITIVE-PARITY.tsv` + `ecdsa/runs/SOTA-BASELINE.md`.

Earlier baseline ladder (DIALOG_GCD + m=154 only, no pseudo-Mersenne, no Lane B, iters=399) landed score **7.9140e+10** (gap 44.46×). 8 lever ports + iters-knob descent + K=2 substrate + raw-pa-architecture + vecC ``*red-tmp-borrowed*`` + vecD ``*dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u*`` compress gap 44.46× → **1.33×** within a single sustained sweep cycle.

HEAD reference: upstream ``ecdsafail-challenge`` ``origin/main`` at commit
``2dcf00d`` (2026-06-08 18:33 UTC, ``jackylee0424``, binder-notch map
+ tail-nonce retune) → score ``1,891,349,200`` ≈ ``1.891e+09``
(1,454,884 avg Toffoli × 1,300 peak qubits). Predecessor ``a4db9a5``
(2026-06-08 17:00 UTC, ``SamrendraS``, binder-notch extra +
tail-nonce retune) lands on the same K2-pair-codec score floor that
``73f4f48`` opened on 2026-06-08 05:42 UTC. Prior frontier ``a66b042``
(``jackylee0424``, 2026-06-06, score ``1.968e+09``) retired after K2-pair
6→3 CCX core encoder shipped. Earlier baseline ``2.402e+09`` retired
in sweep-026 once upstream scan caught HEAD's promoted frontier
moving. Re-scan snapshot lives at
``ecdsa/runs/lumbda-sweep-043/HEAD-RESCAN-2026-06-08.md``.

Production-width emit lands via lumbda C tier on 3090-ai bare-metal,
~322 MB peak RSS, ~5.2 GB binary. File-port streaming writes 56-byte
op records straight to disk via ``fwrite`` without an intermediate
string buffer.

Bend dispatch on 3090-ai:8320 validates ``byte-identity-cpu-gpu true``
on every variant landed — CUDA simulator gate-by-gate agrees with
CPU reference. Single ``bend-cuda`` binary built locally on host via
``cuda/Makefile`` with sm_86.

Width-envelope full-saturation finding — at production width
(n+1=257) the release step ``(margin-1)×1000/slope`` reaches the
textbook ``2n=512`` iter count only at ``m=154/s=300``. Below that
margin, partial saturation leaves the ancilla pool with multiple
width buckets, each ratcheting its own ``max(qubit_id)``. At
``m=154`` every Kaliski iter operates at the same maximum width,
ancilla pool sees ONE width bucket, & peak qubits hit the
structural minimum at 4,886 — down from 16,370 at m=38 (−70 %).
Score collapses 3.990e+11 → 1.230e+11 (−69 %) in a single
margin-axis re-bracket.

Truncated comparator finding — HEAD's ``*dgcd-compare-bits*`` knob
(56 bits at n=256 in HEAD-prod, ~22 % of width) carries real
headroom. cmp=4 (~1.6 % of width at n+1=257) lands as our
production minimum after classical-sim probe-width verification.

cmp=2 caught as algorithmically broken — bend dispatch reports
``byte-identity-cpu-gpu true`` & status PASS, but classical-sim
verify at n+1∈{18, 32} reveals ``out=0`` plus leaked ancilla.
Bend only validates CPU & GPU simulator agreement on a wrong
circuit, not algorithmic correctness vs. expected mod-inverse.
Same defect class re-emerges below at ``DIALOG_GCD_ACTIVE_ITERATIONS``.

DIALOG_GCD active-iters cap — non-monotonic correctness. Setting
iters below textbook ``2n`` produces wrong mod-inverse output at
specific iter values, sporadically. K-correction (classical-replay
backward sweep using K = classical-mod-inv(p, r_on_1)) depends on
``r_on_1`` arithmetic that breaks at certain iters. ``dgcd-resolve-iters``
gates ``r_on_1 != 0``, which is necessary not sufficient.

Probe data:

- n+1=18 (textbook 34): iters ∈ {15: OK, 16: WRONG, 17: WRONG, 18: OK, 25, 26, 27: OK}
- n+1=32 (textbook 62): iters ∈ {10, 12: OK, 15: WRONG, 16, 24, 28, 32, 48, 49, 50: OK}

HEAD ships ``iters=399`` at n=256 (textbook × 0.776) — a tuned
value that survives upstream's test suite. We adopt ``iters=399``
as our production safe value & retract earlier iters-cap
exploration that relied solely on bend PASS without classical-sim
verification.

HOST_GATED measurement-clear port — HEAD's ``mod.rs:24788-24791``
pattern (Hadamard + Measure + Reset, classical-feedback CZ)
substitutes our ccx-mask uncompute pass. Per-call save: (n+1)
Toffoli replaced by 2(n+1) Cliffords (1 HMR + 1 CZ per bit).
At n+1=257 production: 833,172 Toffoli saved (matches rng_ops
exactly — one HMR-RNG per replaced CCX). Net score 4.126e+11 →
3.990e+11 (−3.31 %).

QECCOPS1 wire format always supported HMR (kind 12), CZ (kind 9),
push-cond (kind 15), pop-cond (kind 16); our lumbda emit pipeline
gap was at ``gates.lsp`` — added Tier-1 + Tier-2 emit primitives.
Classical-sim verification at three probe widths confirms HMR
substitution produces correct mod-inverse output matching control
(non-HMR) baseline.

Pseudo-Mersenne mod-double — Schrottenloher 2026/1128 (arXiv
2606.02235, posted 2026-06-01) Algorithm 7 port (sweep-030).
Paper title: *Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve
Discrete Logarithms*; author André Schrottenloher (Univ Rennes,
Inria, CNRS, IRISA). Reference implementation: Qarton,
gitlab.inria.fr/capsule/qarton-projects/ec-point-addition.
secp256k1's prime takes pseudo-Mersenne form
``p = 2²⁵⁶ − 2³² − 977``, so our off-Mersenne residue
``f = 2³² + 977 = 4294968273`` fits in 33 bits. Control
``mod-double-inplace!`` emits an ``add-const`` at full ``n+1`` width
followed by a ``csub-const`` at full ``n+1`` width — 4n Toffoli per
call. New ``mod-double-inplace-pseudo-mersenne!`` emits a single
``cadd-const`` at width ``lsbs = padding + bit-length(f) = 30 + 33 =
63``, controlled on our MSB slot of a pre-double value — 2(lsbs − 1) =
124 Toffoli per call. Per-call saving at production width:
87.9 %. Full-stack production result: avg Toffoli **21,917,696 →
16,197,312** (−26.1 %). Peak qubits 4,886 unchanged — algorithm
reuses existing scratch (carry-in slot, parity flag), allocates
zero new ancilla.

Probe-width verification (classical-sim, ``verify-pseudo-mersenne-double.lsp``):

- **n+1=5, p=13:** Toffoli 16 → 4 (−75.0 %), exhaustive 13 inputs;
  pmersenne matches expected output on 11 / 13, misses on a
  measured 2-input strip predicted by paper's non-exact zone
  (size ≈ f).
- **n+1=9, p=251:** Toffoli 32 → 12 (−62.5 %), exhaustive 251
  inputs; matches on 247 / 251, misses on a 4-input strip
  (predicted 5).
- **n+1=18, p=131,071 (Mersenne):** Toffoli 68 → 30 (−55.9 %),
  1000 random inputs match 1000 / 1000. Mersenne case has
  ``f = 1`` so our non-exact strip shrinks to ``{p − 1}``.
- **n+1=32, p=2³¹ − 1 (Mersenne):** Toffoli 124 → 58 (−53.2 %),
  1000 random inputs match 1000 / 1000.

Non-exact zone scales as ``f / p``; at secp256k1's ``f / p ≈
2³³ / 2²⁵⁶ ≈ 2⁻²²³``, mispredict probability sits below any
9024-shot harness can ever sample. Bend dispatch on 3090-ai:8320
returns ``byte-identity-cpu-gpu true``, status PASS.

Borrowed-carries finding — Cuccaro adder's HMR-uncompute variant
(HEAD ``mod.rs:1097-1144``, ``cuccaro_add_fast``) replaces n CCX
carry-uncompute ops per add with n HMR + n classical-conditioned CZ.
Algorithmic saving: ~n Toffoli per add. Where a caller stages our
scratch ``carries`` register changes everything:

- **Per-call allocation (sweep-016, rolled back):** classical-sim
  verify PASSes at four probe widths. Production-width peak qubits
  explode. Each call's fresh ``carries`` opens a new ancilla bucket
  our pool never recycles.
- **Shared host-allocation (sweep-016b):** alloc once at host scope,
  reuse across Kaliski iters. Peak qubits stabilize, net score lands
  +1.4 % WORSE — long-lived shared register competes with downstream
  ancilla pool reuse patterns.
- **Borrowed-from-caller (sweep-017b, lands):** caller passes its
  own scratch region as ``carries-reg`` + ``carries-offset``.
  No fresh bucket, no long-lived shared register. Production score
  1.230e+11 → **1.186e+11** (gap 49.4×). Extension to mod-add!/mod-sub!
  call sites (sweep-017c) drives score to **1.1513e+11** (gap 47.9×).
- **cmp-lt-into-fast (sweep-017d, queued for production emit):**
  HEAD's ``cmp_lt_into_fast`` at ``mod.rs:3643-3693`` — HMR-uncompute
  of our comparator carry chain. Dispatches from mod-add!/mod-sub!
  under our same ``*cuccaro-use-borrowed*`` flag. Borrowed-carries
  discipline carries through to our comparator backward sweep.

Recurring lesson — probe widths cannot surface peak-qubit
regressions that only manifest under our production-width ancilla
pool's allocation history. Cross-tier byte-identity validates
arithmetic correctness; structural-allocation cost requires
end-to-end production emit to surface.

----

ops_hash vs trace_hash — what byte-identity actually proves
------------------------------------------------------------

``byte-identity-cpu-gpu true`` (returned by bend dispatch) compares an
*ops_hash* — a fingerprint of our emitted QECCOPS1 binary, byte-for-byte
identical between CPU reference & CUDA ``bend-cuda``. ops_hash equality
proves our two execution paths consume an identical op stream &
agree gate-by-gate on the simulator state encoding. ops_hash equality
does **not** prove algorithmic correctness — see ``cmp=2`` & active-iters
cap above, where bend returns PASS + byte-identity true on a circuit
whose mod-inverse output is wrong.

*trace_hash* — a fingerprint of execution-residual state (ancilla
populations, measurement outcomes, accumulated phase after uncompute)
across our simulator's full run — would surface the residual-path
class of defect ops_hash cannot. Our sim framework computes a
residual fingerprint internally, but score artifacts only emit
ops_hash. sweep-042 adds trace_hash to our score-table schema so
every promoted production .bin carries both fingerprints alongside
status PASS & classical-sim verification. Until then, algorithmic
correctness rides on classical-sim probes
(``verify-mod-inv-output.lsp``, ``verify-pseudo-mersenne-double.lsp``)
at sub-production widths plus the cross-tier ops_hash agreement.

----

What HEAD Still Owns
---------------------

Gap of 1.33× under champion ``vecD-on`` decomposes:

- **Peak qubits: 2,573 vs 1,285 = 2.002× over.** Bennett alloc-tmp route per raw-quotient / raw-ipmul call carries a transient ``2N`` qubit envelope HEAD's ``reacquire_vec`` primitive avoids. Allocator trace under our prior champion (2,830 qubits) confirmed peak concurrent live width = 2,827 (3-qubit gap from peak qubit id) — pool fragmentation negligible. Vector C ``*red-tmp-borrowed*`` retired one 257-wide bucket (−257 qubits exactly as projected). Working set, not fragmentation, drives our remaining qubit count. Vector B ``*allocator-slot-shrink-on-narrow*`` queued, predicted −256 next.
- **avg Toffoli: 920,523 vs 1,384,984 — under HEAD by 33.5 % (1.505× better).** Vector D ``*dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u*`` rebinding q1 ``tmp`` onto idle kaliski ``u`` register dropped avg Toffoli 1,252,817 → 920,523 (−26.5 %), pushing our gate count decisively under HEAD's frontier. Toffoli-axis race won; full remaining gap traces to qubits alone. Matching HEAD's 1,285 qubits at our 920,523 avg Toffoli would put us at score ``1.18e+09`` — gap ``0.665×`` (1.505× ahead).

----

Qubit Attack Path
------------------

Allocator-trace decomposition of our prior champion's 2,830 qubit peak (op_seq 514,667 — alloc of ``rawpa-q1-app-mask-step0``):

- 2 input registers (``tx``, ``ty``) — 257 each
- 3 caller-scope point-add scratch (``lam``, ``tmp``, ``red-tmp``) — 257 each
- 4 kaliski-style state (``u``, ``v_w``, ``r``, ``s``) — 257 each
- 1 HOST_GATED mask (``shared-mask``) — 257
- 2 K-correction scratch (``mc-tmp``, ``mc-pow``) — 257 each
- 1 mod-inverse output (``pa-tx-inv``) — 257
- 1 m-history — 129
- 3 width-1 ancillas (``cin``, ``flag``, ``f``)

Sum = 2,830 ✓ (full trace at ``ecdsa/runs/lumbda-rawpa-stress/qubit-attack-plan.md``).

Five attack vectors, sequenced by difficulty:

Vector A · ``*dgcd-raw-pa-share-mask-name*`` (low) — Predicted −257 qubits. Forward tobitvector + apply bitvector phases use 2 mask-name families (``fwd-mask``, ``app-mask``) whose lifetimes never overlap. Pool keys allocations by NAME so each family claims a separate 257-wide slot. Sharing one name = pool recycles one slot. **Shipped, no-op.** ``*allocator-aggressive-fold*`` already coalesces via range-pool fold, not by-name slot reuse. Cells ``vecA-on`` + ``vecA-off`` produced byte-identical emit (qubits = 2,830 both).

Vector B · ``*allocator-slot-shrink-on-narrow*`` (medium) — Predicted −256 qubits. Targets a 256-qubit fragmentation hole at base 1,288..1,543: ``pa-c1y`` (width 257) freed at op 9,188, then ``g0`` (width 1) recycles into our same slot at op 9,190, leaving 256 qubits dormant for ~6.22 M ops. Splits a wide free slot when a narrow alloc lands (width ≤ ½ slot). Shipped in our ``lumbda/emit-stream.lsp`` pool layer. **Dispatcher result pending.**

Vector C · ``*red-tmp-borrowed*`` (medium) — Predicted −257 qubits. ``red-tmp`` lives our entire emit even though usage clusters inside ``mod-reduce!`` callsites. Implementation aliases ``red-tmp`` onto our ``lam`` register, which sits idle under raw-pa-architecture per its contract documentation at ``lumbda/dgcd-raw-pa.lsp:1428`` (``lam-reg`` UNUSED — dialog-log subsumes slope λ). Same gate sequence, one fewer 257-wide register opened. **Shipped + verified ``vecC-on`` — qubits 2,830 → 2,573 exactly as projected (−257). Score 3.5455e+09 → 3.2235e+09 (−9.1 %), gap 1.81×.**

Vector D · ``*dgcd-raw-pa-q1-tmp-into-u*`` (medium) — Originally tagged as a qubit vector; lands as a **Toffoli vector**. ``rawpa-q1-tmp`` (apply-bitvector product accumulator) allocates at op 513,638 — exactly when ``rawpa-q1-u`` (kaliski u register) becomes idle (bitvector lives in dialog-log post-tobitvector). Rebinds ``tmp`` = ``u`` in apply-bitvector phase + restores ``u`` from ``target`` before load-p-bits unload at step 9. Allocator pool already reuses our 257-wide slot for tmp+u under aggressive-fold, so qubits held flat; alloc/free/swap gate sequence elided entirely. **Shipped + verified ``vecD-on`` — qubits flat 2,573 (no change vs vecC), avg Toffoli 1,252,817 → 920,523 (−26.5 %). Score 3.2235e+09 → 2.3685e+09, gap 1.33×. avg Toffoli now sits UNDER HEAD's 1,384,984 by 33.5 %.**

Vector E · g1 width audit (parked) — Initially flagged as defensive over-allocation. Subagent traced bare ``g1`` register name in our allocator trace back to ``(gensym 'rawpa-tmp-add)`` at ``lumbda/dgcd-raw-pa.lsp:1456`` — lumbda C-tier ``bi_gensym`` (``builtins.c:2254``) drops its prefix argument + emits sequential ``g0/g1/g2…`` regardless of source intent. Width n+1 = 257 = Cuccaro carries lane for ``mod-add!`` (contract documented ``dgcd-raw-pa.lsp:727``), threaded through 16+ downstream callsites. Narrowing would corrupt every mod-add inside our 3 raw-* calls. Genuinely structural defensive allocation, not over-allocation. (Bonus side-finding: lumbda C-tier gensym prefix-drop merits separate substrate-cleanup ticket — would make every future allocator-trace report carry meaningful register names.)

Status after C + D landed: 2,830 → 2,573 qubits, avg Toffoli 1.257 M → 920 K. Vector B remains queued — landing it would carry 2,573 → 2,317 qubits (−10 %); score at flat Toffoli ``2.3685e+09 × (2317/2573) = 2.13e+09`` = gap **1.20×**. Beyond B, every additional 257-wide register retired (one Bennett ``reacquire_vec`` port + future caller-scope tightening) multiplies straight through our already-won Toffoli budget. HEAD parity sits inside 5 more 257-wide buckets.

Lever-ranking finding (recurring): lever combinatorics under raw-pa stack saturated at our prior 3.5455e+09 ceiling across 30+ HEAD-route flag variants tested individually + paired (raw-quotient-terminal-reuse, raw-ipmul-terminal-reuse, raw-ipmul-clear-p-residual, host-reverse-raw-block, compressed-block-lifecycle, composite-scratch, compressed-log-u-high-runway, borrow-zero-raw-future, …) — single shared upstream change captures whatever these flags claim, not additive. Same pattern earlier verified champion saw at 1.7019e+10. Breakthrough past 3.5455e+09 ceiling came from direct substrate edits (vecC register-aliasing + vecD register-rebinding), not knob-tuning. Future gap closure runs through more substrate work — Bennett ``reacquire_vec`` port, vector B slot-shrink-on-narrow, additional caller-scope tightening.

----

Lumbda Upstream Wins
---------------------

Production emit at full secp256k1 width surfaced lumbda C-tier defects
& gaps. Each landed upstream alongside our score run:

Precise NaN-box garbage collection
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lumbda C tier shipped with ``GC_disable()`` called unconditionally after
``GC_INIT()`` — every allocation leaked by design, an upstream-documented
stopgap because Boehm's conservative pointer scan cannot see through
lumbda's NaN-box Value layout (heap pointers live in low 48 bits, tag
bits in upper mantissa, raw word never looks like a heap address).

Our fix registers a custom Boehm mark kind whose mark proc walks 8-byte
words in mixed mode: when QNAN (quiet not-a-number) bits set AND tag
identifies a pointer-bearing slot, extract our low-48 pointer; else fall
through to raw-pointer validation. A ``GC_set_push_other_roots`` callback
decodes NaN-boxed Values on our C stack via ``setjmp`` anchor.
``GC_disable`` deleted.

Measured: ``alloc-test`` (1 M ``cons`` pair allocations, dropped each
iteration) ran 0.6 s leaky / 156 MB pre-fix; **0.37 s flat / 4 MB
post-fix**. Tests pass 88/88 c-test, 4/4 regression-named-let-leak (very
test that motivated ``GC_disable``), 410/410 functional, zoe-favorites
across all four tiers.

Binary-safe port primitives
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

QECCOPS1 op records carry 0x00 bytes throughout. Five C-tier defects
silently corrupted any binary write:

- ``bi_get_output_string`` & ``bi_write_string`` (file-port path) used
  ``strlen``-based string functions — body truncated at first null byte.
  Switched to known-length ``fwrite`` & ``make_string``.
- ``bi_write_char`` ignored string-port destinations entirely & wrote
  to stdout. Added PORT_STRING branch routing through ``port_write_str``.
- ``string-ref`` on bytes 0x80–0xFF returned char with codepoint −1
  because ``s->data[idx]`` sign-extended as signed ``char``. Cast through
  ``unsigned char``.
- ``pack_u64_slot`` treated bignum slots as raw fixnums — ``*no-slot*``
  (sentinel 2⁶⁴ − 1) packed as raw pointer bytes instead of 0xFF…FF. Added
  IS_BIGNUM branch extracting low 64 magnitude bits.

New file I/O primitives
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Four primitives mirrored across C tier & Python tier:

- ``open-binary-output-file path`` — opens ``w+b`` so a caller can seek
  back to rewrite a header.
- ``port-set-position! port offset`` — fseek absolute offset on a file port.
- ``append-binary-file path data`` — opens ``ab``, fwrite-s bytes through.
- ``append-port-to-binary-file path port`` — streams a string-output port's
  buffer directly to disk without materializing ``(get-output-string port)``.

Plus ``port_write_str`` growth shifted from 2× to 1.5× past 256 MB —
realloc transient peak (old + new) at 2× needs 24 GB for 8→16 GB; 1.5×
bounds peak at 2.5×.

emit-stream file-port refactor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Previous emit accumulated body in a string-output port, materialized via
``get-output-string``, then ``(string-append header body)`` before
``write-binary-file``. Peak RAM hit 3× body size — a 6 GB body needed
~18 GB transient.

New path opens an ``open-binary-output-file``, reserves 16 placeholder
bytes for header, streams every gate straight to disk, then
``port-set-position! 0`` + ``write-string`` to rewrite QECCOPS1 magic +
n_ops u64 LE once n_ops carries a final value. **Constant RAM regardless
of body size** — 89.58 M ops / 4.7 GB body landed at 322 MB peak RSS.

Net upstream impact: lumbda C tier went from "GC disabled, leaks every
alloc, fails on any binary write with embedded 0x00" to "precise NaN-box
tracing + binary-safe ports + constant-RAM file emit" — usable for any
future multi-GB binary workload, not solely our ecdsa pipeline.

----

Pareto Frontier We Aim To Beat
-------------------------------

Full frontier as upstream README reports it (2026-06), plus our
landing point — Toffoli (avg/shot) · peak qubits · score:

- **HEAD production (jackylee0424 ``2dcf00d``, 2026-06-08):** 1,454,884
  Toffoli @ 1,300 qubits → 1.891e+09
- **HEAD predecessor (SamrendraS ``a4db9a5``, 2026-06-08 17:00 UTC):**
  same 1.891e+09 K2-pair-codec score floor (binder-notch + tail-nonce
  retune lane)
- **HEAD K2-pair-codec opener (``73f4f48``, 2026-06-08 05:42 UTC):**
  1.891e+09 first landing
- **HEAD prior frontier (jackylee0424 a66b042, 2026-06-06):** 1,503,355
  Toffoli @ 1,309 qubits → 1.968e+09 — retired
- **Google low-gate:** 2,100,000 Toffoli @ 1,425 qubits → 3.0e+09
- **Google low-qubit:** 2,700,000 Toffoli @ 1,175 qubits → 3.2e+09
- **Textbook initial:** 3,942,753 Toffoli @ 2,715 qubits → 1.07e+10
- **DIALOG_GCD + borrowed-everywhere (sweep-017c):** 23,563,264 Toffoli @ 4,886 qubits → 1.1513e+11
- **+ pseudo-Mersenne mod-double (sweep-030):** 16,197,312 Toffoli @ 4,886 qubits → **7.9140e+10**

Google's two private points each sit under **1,500 peak qubits** —
1,175 & 1,425 respectively. HEAD production already passes both
(1,300 qubits / 1.891e+09 score) — a public submission beat Google's
private frontier before our entry landed. Our active race runs
HEAD-vs-us; Google's points sit as a historical landmark, not a live
target.

Our peak qubits sit at **2,573** vs HEAD's 1,285 — 2.00× over. Toffoli count **920,523** runs under HEAD's 1,384,984 by **33.5 %** (1.505× better). Qubit-envelope reduction owns full remaining gap closure path. See `Qubit Attack Path`_ above for vectors A-E, B queued next, ~5 more 257-wide buckets to HEAD parity.

Session total since sweep-003 baseline (``4.368e+13``, our entry score): **18,442× score reduction shipped**, gap closed from ``23,099×`` behind HEAD's current promoted frontier (``+2,309,900 %``) down to **1.33× behind** (``+33 %``).

Our lumbda-tier validation gates each variant against byte-identical
cross-tier portals before we ever spend Rust submission budget.

----

Why Track Publicly
------------------

A challenge of this shape rewards aggressive, asymmetric search. Every
factor of two off a Toffoli count, every qubit shaved off peak width,
multiplies straight through Shor's algorithm. Documenting our path
publicly — what we tried, what saturated, what surprised us —
contributes intellectual capital to a commons that historically locked
this work behind paid lab pages.

This page tracks public-facing progress only. Detail logs, asm-tier
safety envelopes, & raw run artifacts stay in our lab repo.

----

Related Pages
-------------

- `foxhop gpu-mesh <https://www.foxhop.net/053ba7da-6277-11f1-82fc-040140774501/gpu-mesh>`__
  — our 3-GPU pool hardware, bench numbers, & coexistence with our LLM
  services (qwen, Hermes, ollama, speech).
- `lumbda.com/bend <https://lumbda.com/bend.html>`__ — bend primitive
  catalog; wire protocol; CUDA form list.

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