Lower bounds on the linear complexity of the discrete logarithm in finite fields

  • Authors:
  • W. Meidl;A. Winterhof

  • Affiliations:
  • Inst. of Discrete Math., Austrian Acad. of Sci., Vienna;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Let p be a prime, r a positive integer, q=pr, and d a divisor of p(q-1). We derive lower bounds on the linear complexity over the residue class ring Zd of a (q-periodic) sequence representing the residues modulo d of the discrete logarithm in Fq . Moreover, we investigate a sequence over Fq representing the values of a certain polynomial over Fq introduced by Mullen and White (1986) which can be identified with the discrete logarithm in Fq via p-adic expansions and representations of the elements of Fq with respect to some fixed basis