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Recently, several striking advances have taken place regarding the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in finite fields of small characteristic, despite progress having remained essentially static for nearly thirty years, with the best known…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Robert Granger , Thorsten Kleinjung , Jens Zumbrägel

The hidden subgroup problem (HSP) plays an important role in quantum computation, because many quantum algorithms that are exponentially faster than classical algorithms can be casted in the HSP structure. In this paper, we present a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 D. N. Goncalves , R. Portugal

This paper studies a fundamental problem in convex optimization, which is to solve semidefinite programming (SDP) with high accuracy. This paper follows from the existing robust SDP-based interior point method analysis due to [Huang, Jiang,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Baihe Huang , Shunhua Jiang , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Ruizhe Zhang

An alternative quantum algorithm for the discrete logarithm problem is presented. The algorithm uses two quantum registers and two Fourier transforms whereas Shor's algorithm requires three registers and four Fourier transforms. A crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wim van Dam

Difficulty of calculation of discrete logarithm for any arbitrary Field is the basis for security of several popular cryptographic solutions. Pohlig-Hellman method is a popular choice to calculate discrete logarithm in finite field $F_p^*$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Rajeev Kumar

We identify a sub-class of BQP that captures certain structural commonalities among many quantum algorithms including Shor's algorithms. This class does not contain all of BQP (e.g. Grover's algorithm does not fall into this class). Our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Richard J. Lipton , Kenneth W. Regan , Atri Rudra

The hidden subgroup problem ($\mathsf{HSP}$) has been attracting much attention in quantum computing, since several well-known quantum algorithms including Shor algorithm can be described in a uniform framework as quantum methods to address…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zekun Ye , Lvzhou Li

Shor's algorithm is one of the most important quantum algorithm proposed by Peter Shor [Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1994, pp. 124--134]. Shor's algorithm can factor a large integer with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Ligang Xiao , Daowen Qiu , Le Luo , Paulo Mateus

Many quantum algorithms, including Shor's celebrated factoring and discrete log algorithms, proceed by reduction to a Hidden Subgroup problem, in which an unknown subgroup H of a group G must be determined from a uniform superposition on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristopher Moore , Daniel Rockmore , Alexander Russell , Leonard J. Schulman

Advances in quantum computing make Shor's algorithm for factorising numbers ever more tractable. This threatens the security of any cryptographic system which often relies on the difficulty of factorisation. It also threatens methods based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jon Barton , William J Buchanan , Nikolaos Pitropakis , Sarwar Sayeed , Will Abramson

Shor's shockingly fast quantum algorithm for solving the period-finding problem is a threat for the most common public-key primitives, as it can be efficiently applied to solve both the Integer Factorisation Problem and the Discrete…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Nicola Di Chiano , Riccardo Longo , Alessio Meneghetti , Giordano Santilli

Quantum algorithms for factoring and discrete logarithm have previously been generalized to finding hidden subgroups of finite Abelian groups. This paper explores the possibility of extending this general viewpoint to finding hidden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Mark Ettinger , Peter Hoyer

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) attempts to find cryptographic protocols resistant to attacks using Shor polynomial time algorithm for numerical field problems or Grover search algorithm. A mostly overlooked but valuable line of solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Pedro Hecht

The goals of this paper are to show the following. First, Grover's algorithm can be viewed as a digital approximation to the analog quantum algorithm proposed in "An Analog Analogue of a Digital Quantum Computation", by E. Farhi and S.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

We provide a survey on the Hidden Subgroup Problem (HSP), which plays an important role in studying the security of public-key cryptosystems. We first review the abelian case, where Kitaev's algorithm yields an efficient quantum solution to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Simone Dutto , Pietro Mercuri , Nadir Murru , Lorenzo Romano

We give precise quantum resource estimates for Shor's algorithm to compute discrete logarithms on elliptic curves over prime fields. The estimates are derived from a simulation of a Toffoli gate network for controlled elliptic curve point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Martin Roetteler , Michael Naehrig , Krysta M. Svore , Kristin Lauter

Shor's algorithm is one of the most significant quantum algorithms. Shor's algorithm can factor large integers with a certain success probability in polynomial time. However, Shor's algorithm requires an unbearable amount of qubits in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Ligang Xiao , Daowen Qiu , Le Luo , Paulo Mateus

Shor's factorisation algorithm is a combination of classical pre- and post-processing and a quantum period finding (QPF) subroutine which allows an exponential speed up over classical factoring algorithms. We consider the stability of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Simon J. Devitt , Austin G. Fowler , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We derive algorithms for efficient secure numerical and logical operations using a recently introduced scheme for secure multi-party computation~\cite{sch15} in the semi-honest model ensuring statistical or perfect security. To derive our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Johannes Schneider , Bin Lu

We revisit the reduction of Cheng and Wan, which transforms instances of the discrete logarithm problem (DLOG) over finite fields into a decoding problem for Reed--Solomon codes, and study how Regev's reduction can be used to solve these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 M. Isabel Franco Garrido , André Chailloux