Comparing EC MPI points

Sree Harsha Totakura sreeharsha at totakura.in
Fri Jun 20 12:14:24 CEST 2014


On 06/06/2014 10:30 AM, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote:
> I found a way: compare the points' coordinates after retrieving them with
> gcry_mpi_point_get()

Just FYI for the ones arriving here via Internet searches.  You should use
gcry_mpi_point_get_affine() instead of gcry_mpi_point_get() since the projective
coordinates given by the latter function can be expressed differently for a
given point.  The affine coordinates do not have this problem.

Sree



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