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Kevin Smith
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It appears that this is equivalent to the question of the complexity of the discrete logarithm problem, so I think this question is in general an open problem and ought to be retagged and treated as such.

As Maarty Isaacs commented $$f_p(n)=np\mod q.$$ To say that the order in which the elements reappear is of a random nature is to say that $np\mod q$ is of high complexity, which is the same as the complexity of its inverse.

In other words, given a cyclic group $G$, a generator $g$ and an element $f$, the question is:

How difficult is it to find an integer $n$ such that $f=g^n$?

Kevin Smith
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