In Discrete Logs, What Should g Be?

In reading about cryptography, have you ever come across the term of a cyclic group G of order p and with a generator g? This article will hopefully explain what this means.

The world of public key encryption is currently dominated by two things: discrete logarithms and elliptic curve methods. RSA is becoming a thing of the past for new applications, but it is only hanging on as it has such a monopoly…