e used.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>In addition <b>EC_POINT</b> can be converted to and from various external representations. The octet form is the binary encoding of the <b>ECPoint</b> structure (as defined in RFC5480 and used in certificates and TLS records): only the content octets are 