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One way to utilize C++ to identify a cyclic group of prime order is by implementing an algorithm to generate a prime number and test if it is the order of a cyclic group.

Here is one possible approach:

1. Implement a function to generate a prime number. There are several algorithms that can be used for this purpose, such as the Sieve of Eratosthenes, Miller-Rabin primality test, or AKS primality test.
2. Call the prime generation function to generate a random prime number p.
3. Check if p - 1 has only two distinct prime factors. This is a necessary condition for a group of order p-1 to be cyclic. If p-1 has more than two prime factors, it can only have a non-cyclic group structure.
4. Implement a function to generate random integers modulo p. This can be done using the rand() function and taking the result modulo p.
5. Choose a random base element g from the set of integers modulo p.
6. Check if g^((p-1)/q) mod p is not equal to 1 for any prime factor q of p-1. If this condition holds, then g is a generator of the cyclic group of order p-1.

Here is some sample code for steps 2-6:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int randomPrime(int max) {
    // Implement a function to generate a prime number.
    // ...
}

int randomModulo(int p) {
    // Implement a function to generate a random integer modulo p.
    // ...
}

bool isCyclicGroup(int p, int g) {
    // Check if g is a generator of the cyclic group of order p-1.
    int factors[2];
    int fcount = 0;
    int q = p - 1;
    for (int i = 2; i <= sqrt(q); i++) {
        if (q % i == 0) {
            factors[fcount++] = i;
            while (q % i == 0) q /= i;
        }
    }
    if (q > 1) factors[fcount++] = q;
    if (fcount != 2) return false; // p-1 must have exactly two prime factors
    for (int i = 0; i < fcount; i++) {
        int exp = (p - 1) / factors[i];
        int res = 1;
        for (int j = 0; j < exp; j++) res = (res * g) % p;
        if (res == 1) return false; // g is not a generator
    }
    // g is a generator of the cyclic group of order p-1
    return true;
}

int main() {
    int p = randomPrime(100);
    cout << "Generated prime number p = " << p << endl;
    if ((p - 1) % 6 != 5) {
        cout << "p-1 is not of the form 2*q or 4*q for prime q" << endl;
        return 0;
    }
    int g = randomModulo(p);
    if (!isCyclicGroup(p, g)) {
        cout << "Chose non-generator element g = " << g << endl;
        return 0;
    }
    cout << "Generated generator element g = " << g << endl;
    return 0;
}

Note that this is just one possible algorithm, and there may be more efficient or elegant ways to accomplish the same goal.