An algorithm for evaluation of discrete logarithms in some nonprime finite fields

Abstract:

In this paper we propose an algorithm for evaluation of logarithms in the finite fields $F_{p^n}$, where the number $p^n-1$ has a small primitive factor $r$. The heuristic estimate of the complexity of the algorithm is equal to $\exp ((c+o(1))(\log p r\log ^2r)^{1/3})$, where $n$ grows to $\infty$, and $p$ is limited by a polynomial in $n$. The evaluation of logarithms is founded on a new congruence of the kind of D. Coppersmith, $C(x)^k\equiv D(x)$, which has a great deal of solutions—pairs of polynomials $C(x),D(x)$ of small degrees.