Abstract:
We prove that under some assumptions of a theoretical nature the complexity
$L$ of the discrete logarithm problem in an arbitrary cyclic group of
order $m$ is estimated in the rather general case in terms of the complexity
$D$ of the Diffie–Hellman problem by the formula
$$
L \le \exp \left\{{\log D\log m\over \log\log m\log\log\log m}\right\},
$$
which gives a subexponential
estimate for $L$ provided a polynomial estimate for $D$ is valid.