Comparison With Integer Factorization
While the problem of computing discrete logarithms and the problem of integer factorization are distinct problems they share some properties:
- both problems are difficult (no efficient algorithms are known for non-quantum computers),
- for both problems efficient algorithms on quantum computers are known,
- algorithms from one problem are often adapted to the other, and
- the difficulty of both problems has been used to construct various cryptographic systems.
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