“…More recently, elliptic curves have found applications in diverse areas such as the proof of Fermat's last theorem, factoring large integers, and in cryptography. An area worth particularly mentioning is the study of various character sums on the points of an elliptic curve, which have been used to sum primes, find generators for elliptic curve groups, and determine the structure of such groups by demonstrating the uniformity of the distribution of certain points (see, for example, [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [8], [9], or [11]). A new direction in this area has been to examine integer-weighted character sums over elliptic curves [6], [7].…”