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Title "EC_POINT_new 3"
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\fBEC_POINT_free() frees the memory associated with the \s-1EC_POINT\s0. if point is \s-1NULL\s0 nothing is done.
\fBEC_POINT_clear_free() destroys any sensitive data held within the \s-1EC_POINT\s0 and then frees its memory. If point is \s-1NULL\s0 nothing is done.
\fBEC_POINT_copy() copies the point src into dst. Both src and dst must use the same \s-1EC_METHOD\s0.
\fBEC_POINT_dup() creates a new \s-1EC_POINT\s0 object and copies the content from \fBsrc to the newly created \s-1EC_POINT\s0 object.
\fBEC_POINT_method_of() obtains the \s-1EC_METHOD\s0 associated with point.
A valid point on a curve is the special point at infinity. A point is set to be at infinity by calling EC_POINT_set_to_infinity().
The affine co-ordinates for a point describe a point in terms of its x and y position. The function EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates() sets the x and y co-ordinates for the point p defined over the curve given in group. The function EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates() sets x and y, either of which may be \s-1NULL,\s0 to the corresponding coordinates of p.
The functions EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp() and \fBEC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m() are synonyms for \fBEC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates(). They are defined for backwards compatibility only and should not be used.
The functions EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GFp() and \fBEC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m() are synonyms for \fBEC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates(). They are defined for backwards compatibility only and should not be used.
As well as the affine co-ordinates, a point can alternatively be described in terms of its Jacobian projective co-ordinates (for Fp curves only). Jacobian projective co-ordinates are expressed as three values x, y and z. Working in this co-ordinate system provides more efficient point multiplication operations. A mapping exists between Jacobian projective co-ordinates and affine co-ordinates. A Jacobian projective co-ordinate (x, y, z) can be written as an affine co-ordinate as (x/(z^2), y/(z^3)). Conversion to Jacobian projective from affine co-ordinates is simple. The co-ordinate (x, y) is mapped to (x, y, 1). To set or get the projective co-ordinates use \fBEC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp() and \fBEC_POINT_get_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp() respectively.
Points can also be described in terms of their compressed co-ordinates. For a point (x, y), for any given value for x such that the point is on the curve there will only ever be two possible values for y. Therefore, a point can be set using the EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates() function where x is the x co-ordinate and y_bit is a value 0 or 1 to identify which of the two possible values for y should be used.
The functions EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GFp() and \fBEC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m() are synonyms for \fBEC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates(). They are defined for backwards compatibility only and should not be used.
In addition \s-1EC_POINT\s0 can be converted to and from various external representations. The octet form is the binary encoding of the ECPoint structure (as defined in \s-1RFC5480\s0 and used in certificates and \s-1TLS\s0 records): only the content octets are present, the \s-1OCTET STRING\s0 tag and length are not included. \s-1BIGNUM\s0 form is the octet form interpreted as a big endian integer converted to a \s-1BIGNUM\s0 structure. Hexadecimal form is the octet form converted to a \s-1NULL\s0 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(), \fBEC_POINT_bn2point(), EC_POINT_point2hex() and EC_POINT_hex2point() convert from and to EC_POINTs for the formats: octet, \s-1BIGNUM\s0 and hexadecimal respectively.
The function EC_POINT_point2oct() encodes the given curve point p as an octet string into the buffer buf of size len, using the specified conversion form form. The encoding conforms with Sec. 2.3.3 of the \s-1SECG SEC 1\s0 (\*(L"Elliptic Curve Cryptography\*(R") standard. Similarly the function EC_POINT_oct2point() decodes a curve point into p from the octet string contained in the given buffer buf of size len, conforming to Sec. 2.3.4 of the \s-1SECG SEC 1\s0 (\*(L"Elliptic Curve Cryptography\*(R") standard.
The functions EC_POINT_point2hex() and EC_POINT_point2bn() convert a point p, respectively, to the hexadecimal or \s-1BIGNUM\s0 representation of the same encoding of the function EC_POINT_point2oct(). Vice versa, similarly to the function EC_POINT_oct2point(), the functions \fBEC_POINT_hex2point() and EC_POINT_point2bn() decode the hexadecimal or \s-1BIGNUM\s0 representation into the \s-1EC_POINT\s0 p.
Notice that, according to the standard, the octet string encoding of the point at infinity for a given curve is fixed to a single octet of value zero and that, vice versa, a single octet of size zero is decoded as the point at infinity.
The function EC_POINT_point2oct() must be supplied with a buffer long enough to store the octet form. The return value provides the number of octets stored. Calling the function with a \s-1NULL\s0 buffer will not perform the conversion but will still return the required buffer length.
The function EC_POINT_point2buf() allocates a buffer of suitable length and writes an \s-1EC_POINT\s0 to it in octet format. The allocated buffer is written to \fB*pbuf and its length is returned. The caller must free up the allocated buffer with a call to OPENSSL_free(). Since the allocated buffer value is written to *pbuf the pbuf parameter \s-1MUST NOT\s0 be \s-1NULL\s0.
The function EC_POINT_point2hex() will allocate sufficient memory to store the hexadecimal string. It is the caller's responsibility to free this memory with a subsequent call to OPENSSL_free().
The following functions return 1 on success or 0 on error: EC_POINT_copy(), \fBEC_POINT_set_to_infinity(), EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp(), \fBEC_POINT_get_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp(), \fBEC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp(), EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GFp(), \fBEC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GFp(), \fBEC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m(), EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m(), \fBEC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m() and EC_POINT_oct2point().
EC_POINT_method_of returns the \s-1EC_METHOD\s0 associated with the supplied \s-1EC_POINT.\s0
\fBEC_POINT_point2oct() and EC_POINT_point2buf() return the length of the required buffer or 0 on error.
\fBEC_POINT_point2bn() returns the pointer to the \s-1BIGNUM\s0 supplied, or \s-1NULL\s0 on error.
\fBEC_POINT_bn2point() returns the pointer to the \s-1EC_POINT\s0 supplied, or \s-1NULL\s0 on error.
\fBEC_POINT_point2hex() returns a pointer to the hex string, or \s-1NULL\s0 on error.
\fBEC_POINT_hex2point() returns the pointer to the \s-1EC_POINT\s0 supplied, or \s-1NULL\s0 on error.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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