=head1 NAME
-EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp, EC_POINT_point2buf,
-EC_POINT_new, EC_POINT_free, EC_POINT_clear_free,
-EC_POINT_copy, EC_POINT_dup, EC_POINT_method_of,
+EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp,
+EC_POINT_point2buf,
+EC_POINT_new,
+EC_POINT_free,
+EC_POINT_clear_free,
+EC_POINT_copy,
+EC_POINT_dup,
+EC_POINT_method_of,
EC_POINT_set_to_infinity,
EC_POINT_get_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp,
+EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates,
+EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates,
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates,
EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp,
-EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GFp, EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GFp,
-EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m, EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m,
-EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m, EC_POINT_point2oct,
-EC_POINT_oct2point, EC_POINT_point2bn, EC_POINT_bn2point, EC_POINT_point2hex,
+EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GFp,
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GFp,
+EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m,
+EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m,
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m,
+EC_POINT_point2oct,
+EC_POINT_oct2point,
+EC_POINT_point2bn,
+EC_POINT_bn2point,
+EC_POINT_point2hex,
EC_POINT_hex2point
- Functions for creating, destroying and manipulating EC_POINT objects
void EC_POINT_clear_free(EC_POINT *point);
int EC_POINT_copy(EC_POINT *dst, const EC_POINT *src);
EC_POINT *EC_POINT_dup(const EC_POINT *src, const EC_GROUP *group);
- const EC_METHOD *EC_POINT_method_of(const EC_POINT *point);
int EC_POINT_set_to_infinity(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *point);
+ int EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *p,
+ const BIGNUM *x, const BIGNUM *y,
+ BN_CTX *ctx);
+ int EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
+ BIGNUM *x, BIGNUM *y, BN_CTX *ctx);
+ int EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *p,
+ const BIGNUM *x, int y_bit,
+ BN_CTX *ctx);
+ size_t EC_POINT_point2oct(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
+ point_conversion_form_t form,
+ unsigned char *buf, size_t len, BN_CTX *ctx);
+ size_t EC_POINT_point2buf(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *point,
+ point_conversion_form_t form,
+ unsigned char **pbuf, BN_CTX *ctx);
+ int EC_POINT_oct2point(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *p,
+ const unsigned char *buf, size_t len, BN_CTX *ctx);
+ BIGNUM *EC_POINT_point2bn(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
+ point_conversion_form_t form, BIGNUM *bn,
+ BN_CTX *ctx);
+ EC_POINT *EC_POINT_bn2point(const EC_GROUP *group, const BIGNUM *bn,
+ EC_POINT *p, BN_CTX *ctx);
+ char *EC_POINT_point2hex(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
+ point_conversion_form_t form, BN_CTX *ctx);
+ EC_POINT *EC_POINT_hex2point(const EC_GROUP *group, const char *hex,
+ EC_POINT *p, BN_CTX *ctx);
+
+Deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0:
+
+ const EC_METHOD *EC_POINT_method_of(const EC_POINT *point);
int EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp(const EC_GROUP *group,
EC_POINT *p,
const BIGNUM *x, const BIGNUM *y,
EC_POINT *p,
const BIGNUM *x, int y_bit,
BN_CTX *ctx);
- size_t EC_POINT_point2oct(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
- point_conversion_form_t form,
- unsigned char *buf, size_t len, BN_CTX *ctx);
- size_t EC_POINT_point2buf(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *point,
- point_conversion_form_t form,
- unsigned char **pbuf, BN_CTX *ctx);
- int EC_POINT_oct2point(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *p,
- const unsigned char *buf, size_t len, BN_CTX *ctx);
- BIGNUM *EC_POINT_point2bn(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
- point_conversion_form_t form, BIGNUM *bn,
- BN_CTX *ctx);
- EC_POINT *EC_POINT_bn2point(const EC_GROUP *group, const BIGNUM *bn,
- EC_POINT *p, BN_CTX *ctx);
- char *EC_POINT_point2hex(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p,
- point_conversion_form_t form, BN_CTX *ctx);
- EC_POINT *EC_POINT_hex2point(const EC_GROUP *group, const char *hex,
- EC_POINT *p, BN_CTX *ctx);
-
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<src> to the newly created B<EC_POINT> object.
EC_POINT_method_of() obtains the B<EC_METHOD> associated with B<point>.
+This function was deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0, since EC_METHOD is no longer a
+public concept.
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 functions EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp() and
-EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m() set the B<x> and B<y> co-ordinates for
-the point B<p> defined over the curve given in B<group>.
+position. The function EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates() sets the B<x> and B<y>
+co-ordinates for the point B<p> defined over the curve given in B<group>. The
+function EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates() sets B<x> and B<y>, either of which
+may be NULL, to the corresponding coordinates of B<p>.
+
+The functions EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp() and
+EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m() are synonyms for
+EC_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
+EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m() are synonyms for
+EC_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
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
+to (x, y, 1). Although deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0 and should no longer be used,
+to set or get the projective co-ordinates in older versions use
EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp() and
EC_POINT_get_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp() respectively.
+Modern versions should instead use EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates() and
+EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates(), performing the conversion manually using the
+above maps in such rare circumstances.
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_GFp() and
-EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m() functions where B<x> is the x
+using the EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates() function 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.
+The functions EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GFp() and
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m() are synonyms for
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates(). They are defined for backwards
+compatibility only and should not be used.
+
In addition B<EC_POINT> can be converted to and from various external
representations. The octet form is the binary encoding of the B<ECPoint>
structure (as defined in RFC5480 and used in certificates and TLS records):
EC_POINT_bn2point(), EC_POINT_point2hex() and EC_POINT_hex2point() convert from
and to EC_POINTs for the formats: octet, BIGNUM and hexadecimal respectively.
+The function EC_POINT_point2oct() encodes the given curve point B<p> as an
+octet string into the buffer B<buf> of size B<len>, using the specified
+conversion form B<form>.
+The encoding conforms with Sec. 2.3.3 of the SECG SEC 1 ("Elliptic Curve
+Cryptography") standard.
+Similarly the function EC_POINT_oct2point() decodes a curve point into B<p> from
+the octet string contained in the given buffer B<buf> of size B<len>, conforming
+to Sec. 2.3.4 of the SECG SEC 1 ("Elliptic Curve Cryptography") standard.
+
+The functions EC_POINT_point2hex() and EC_POINT_point2bn() convert a point B<p>,
+respectively, to the hexadecimal or BIGNUM representation of the same
+encoding of the function EC_POINT_point2oct().
+Vice versa, similarly to the function EC_POINT_oct2point(), the functions
+EC_POINT_hex2point() and EC_POINT_point2bn() decode the hexadecimal or
+BIGNUM representation into the EC_POINT B<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 NULL buffer will not perform the conversion but
L<EC_POINT_add(3)>, L<EC_KEY_new(3)>,
L<EC_GFp_simple_method(3)>, L<d2i_ECPKParameters(3)>
+=head1 HISTORY
+
+EC_POINT_method_of(),
+EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp(),
+EC_POINT_get_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp(),
+EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp(), EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GFp(),
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GFp(),
+EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GF2m(), EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates_GF2m(),
+EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates_GF2m() were deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0.
+
+B<EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates>, B<EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates>,
+and B<EC_POINT_set_compressed_coordinates> were
+added in OpenSSL 1.1.1.
+
=head1 COPYRIGHT
-Copyright 2013-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2013-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
-Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
+Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.