POINTs for the formats: octet, BIGNUM and hexadecimal respectively.</p>

<p>The function EC_POINT_point2oct() encodes the given curve point <b>p</b> as an octet string into the buffer <b>buf</b> of size <b>len</b>, using the specified conversion form <b>form</b>. The encoding conforms with Sec. 2.3.3 of the SECG SEC 1 (&quot;Elliptic Curve Cryptography&quot;) standard. Similarly the function EC_POINT_oct2point() decodes a curve point into <b>p</b> from the octet string contained in the given buffer <b>buf</