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If the discrete logarithm problem is NP-hard, then I will eat my hat. The discrete logarithm problem can be solved by Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer, placing it in the complexity class BQP. Anyone who claims that BQP contains an NP-hard problem is selling something - I would bet at a trillion-to-one odds against such a claim (if there were any hope of definitively settling the problem).

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