present, the <b>OCTET STRING</b> tag and length are not included. <b>BIGNUM</b> form is the octet form interpreted as a big endian integer converted to a <b>BIGNUM</b> structure. Hexadecimal form is the octet form converted to a NULL terminated character string where each character is one of the printable values 0-9 or A-F (or a-f).</p>

<p>The functions EC_POINT_point2oct(), EC_POINT_oct2point(), EC_POINT_point2bn(), EC_POINT_bn2point(), EC_POINT_point2hex() and EC_POINT_hex2point() convert from and to EC_