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In Chapter 2 we examined the hard problem of FACTOR. This gave us some (hopefully) one-way functions, namely the RSA function, the squaring function modulo a composite and the function which multiplies two large numbers together.
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Smart, N.P. (2016). Discrete Logarithms. In: Cryptography Made Simple. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21936-3_3
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