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## Features
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This library provides key generation, signing, and verifying, for five
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popular NIST "Suite B" GF(p) curves, with key lengths of 192, 224, 256, 384,
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and 521 bits. The "short names" for these curves, as known by the OpenSSL
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tool (`openssl ecparam -list_curves`), are: prime192v1, secp224r1,
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prime256v1, secp384r1, and secp521r1. It also includes the 256-bit curve used
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by Bitcoin, whose short name is secp256k1. No other curves are included, but
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it would not be too hard to add more.
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popular NIST "Suite B" GF(p) (_prime field_) curves, with key lengths of 192,
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224, 256, 384, and 521 bits. The "short names" for these curves, as known by
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the OpenSSL tool (`openssl ecparam -list_curves`), are: `prime192v1`,
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`secp224r1`, `prime256v1`, `secp384r1`, and `secp521r1`. It also includes the
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256-bit curve `secp256k1` used by Bitcoin. No other curves
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are included, but it is not too hard to add support for more curves
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over prime fields.
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## Dependencies
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