On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Pieter Wuille
<pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:01:12PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > * 0x04 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: uncompressed format
> > * 0x06 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for even Y coords
> > * 0x07 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for odd Y coords
>
> So what's the actual difference in format? Is there any at all, or
> it's just the first number that's different?
>From what I understand, that is indeed the only difference.
To prevent surprises in the future, in case OpenSSL decides to add more, can we disable all other key formats in advance?
Wladimir