On generic complexity of the discrete logarithm problem | Prikladnaya Diskretnaya Matematika - Applied Discrete Mathematics. 2016. № 3(33). DOI: 10.17223/20710410/33/8

Generic-case approach to algorithmic problems was suggested by Miasnikov, Kapovich, Schupp and Shpilrain in 2003. This approach studies behaviour of an algorithm on typical (almost all) inputs and ignores the rest of inputs. Many classical undecidable or hard algorithmic problems become feasible in the generic case. But there are gener-ically hard problems. In this paper, we consider generic complexity of the classical discrete logarithm problem. We fit this problem in the frameworks of generic complexity and prove that its natural subproblem is generically hard provided that the discrete logarithm problem is hard in the worst case.