Hello everybody I created EC keypair via JAVA with secp160r2 template. When I looked at text form of public key, I saw there this:
"04666d59b1fb53c1c998c12c71731d3a36a37cd995cadeee96c156c8d7c7852b39b5fefd1fa3ce18c7" I know that last 40 bytes present x and y number of ec point but I don't know what means first byte 04. It's some compresion or what ? Does exist some rule for generating of this byte or it's constant value ?. In Java I created public key that menas I know ec point(x and y) and now I need to construct this array of 41 bytes Can somebody help me ? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-meams-first-byte-%2704%27-in-EC-public-key--tf4532762.html#a12935481 Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
