[65591] in Cypherpunks
Re: Diffie Hellman - logs in Galois fields
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Mon Sep 16 19:34:55 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 96 17:57:55 EDT
paul@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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