Discrete Logarithm - Comparison With Integer Factorization

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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