Using the values in the equation above, finding the discrete logarithm problem is finding when only , and are known. As an example, take the situation in which someone has multiplied by itself times, ...

The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) lies at the heart of modern public-key cryptography. It concerns the challenge of determining an unknown scalar multiplier given two points on ...

This chapter excerpted from Hardware Implementation of Finite-Field Arithmetic, gives an example of finite-field application namely, the implementation of the scalar product (point multiplication) ...

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However, when elliptic curve cryptography is used, the much harder problem of finding the discrete logarithm of a random elliptic curve element results—and nobody actually has figured out how to ...