Diffie Hellman - logs in Galois fields

[Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM]

paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk writes:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A question for the matematicians out there:
> 
> I am looking at the Diffie Hellman public key exchange protocol and 
> am trying to find out why it is computationally hard to take logs in 
> a finite (Galois) field.

I think polluting this mailing list with trivial questions such as this is
just as bad as polluting it with personal attacks. Read the FAQs.

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