Re: Factorization polynomially reducible to discrete log - known fact or not?

2006-07-12 Thread Max A.
On 7/9/06, Ondrej Mikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I have the proof that factorization of N=p*q (p, q prime) is polynomially reducible to discrete logarithm problem. Is it a known fact or not? I searched for such proof, but only found that the two problems are believed to be equivalent

Re: Factorization polynomially reducible to discrete log - known fact or not?

2006-07-11 Thread Ondrej Mikle
Charlie Kaufman wrote: I believe this has been known for a long time, though I have never seen the proof. I could imagine constructing one based on quadratic sieve. I believe that a proof that the discrete log problem is polynomially reducible to the factorization problem is much harder and

RE: Factorization polynomially reducible to discrete log - known fact or not?

2006-07-10 Thread Charlie Kaufman
I believe this has been known for a long time, though I have never seen the proof. I could imagine constructing one based on quadratic sieve. I believe that a proof that the discrete log problem is polynomially reducible to the factorization problem is much harder and more recent (as in