Can you explain this statement from diffie hellman lesson?? How this discrete logarithm calculated in this algorithm??

Question

Diffie hellman gets its security from the difficulty of calculating discrete logarithms in a finite field, as compared with the ease of calculating exponentiation in the same field.
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Answer 1

Hi,
your question better fits in comment of this lesson.

Answer 2

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