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discrete-logarithm
- Feb 7, 2026 How Shor's Algorithm Turns Factoring into Period Finding Why quantum phase estimation on a modular exponentiation function recovers RSA private keys, and what the circuit cost reveals about which schemes need replacing and which do not. cryptography
- Apr 19, 2022 Discrete Logarithms and Why Group Order Decides Their Difficulty How Pohlig-Hellman reduces a discrete logarithm to its prime factors, why safe primes and Schnorr groups exist, and what small-subgroup confinement does to a protocol. cryptography