Discrete logarithms, multiplicative orders, in GMP?

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Hi there,

I've been doing a little bit of number theoretical work with mostly small
numbers (64 bits at most), and several times I've needed to compute
discrete logarithms, or find the order of a number.  That is, given a prime
p and a,b < p, to find the order of a: the least value n such that a^n = 1
(mod p), and the discrete log of a to the base b: to find the number e such
that b^e = a (mod p) if e exists.  It would be very convenient to have such
functionality in GMP, rather than having to load yet another library.  Are
there any plans to add such functionality?  Or is there some cunning way of
obtaining these from built in GMP functions?

Thanks,
Alasdair