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author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2015-04-20 22:51:55 +0200 |
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committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2015-04-20 22:53:07 +0200 |
commit | 2a00e489122f6c4b525090dbdba2855a2ea2d519 (patch) | |
tree | 815e5c842bccb2bc6eb4b2934ef618fe32b820ca /openssl/doc/crypto/EC_POINT_new.pod | |
parent | 4ba9be2882d9f1567809edb0a31fcdf11320d41f (diff) | |
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Upgraded to openssl 1.0.2a
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diff --git a/openssl/doc/crypto/EC_POINT_new.pod b/openssl/doc/crypto/EC_POINT_new.pod index 69eb0d1a0..858baf424 100755 --- a/openssl/doc/crypto/EC_POINT_new.pod +++ b/openssl/doc/crypto/EC_POINT_new.pod @@ -81,8 +81,13 @@ on the curve there will only ever be two possible values for y. Therefore a poin and EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m functions where B<x> is the x co-ordinate and B<y_bit> is a value 0 or 1 to identify which of the two possible values for y should be used. -In addition EC_POINTs can be converted to and from various external representations. Supported representations are octet strings, BIGNUMs and hexadecimal. The format of the external representation is described by the point_conversion_form. See L<EC_GROUP_copy(3)|EC_GROUP_copy(3)> for -a description of point_conversion_form. Octet strings are stored in a buffer along with an associated buffer length. A point held in a BIGNUM is calculated by converting the point to an octet string and then converting that octet string into a BIGNUM integer. Points in hexadecimal format are stored in a NULL terminated character string where each character is one of the printable values 0-9 or A-F (or a-f). +In addition EC_POINTs can be converted to and from various external +representations. Supported representations are octet strings, BIGNUMs and +hexadecimal. Octet strings are stored in a buffer along with an associated +buffer length. A point held in a BIGNUM is calculated by converting the point to +an octet string and then converting that octet string into a BIGNUM integer. +Points in hexadecimal format are stored in a NULL terminated character string +where each character is one of the printable values 0-9 or A-F (or a-f). The functions EC_POINT_point2oct, EC_POINT_oct2point, EC_POINT_point2bn, EC_POINT_bn2point, EC_POINT_point2hex and EC_POINT_hex2point convert from and to EC_POINTs for the formats: octet string, BIGNUM and hexadecimal respectively. |