for some integer m. It would be nice to be able to apply a
“logarithm” map to the above equation and hence solve the discrete
logarithm problem. Such a “logarithm” would be a homomorphism from the
group ,
into a group for which solving the logarithm problem is easy, such as
. However, no such
logarithm map is known which is defined on curves over , however, such a map is
known for curves over .