Re: ECPoint

toByteArray() produces the BigInteger as a big-endian two's complement
number. Sometimes you will see an extra byte due to the need to add a
zero byte to prevent the number being interpreted as a negative.

Regards,

David

On 18/06/18 10:09, rangeli nepal wrote:
> Good Evening Gentlemen,
>
> I am trying to use java ECPoint of org.bouncycastle.ec.math package. I generate random number and create ECPoing ( public coordinates) as follows.  I am using P-256 curve. My expectation is AffineXcoordiante or AffineYCoord will be 32 bytes.
> However I some time get 32 other time it gives 33. am I missing something?
>
> Your answer will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> rn
>
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> ECPoint g = x9.getG()
> ECPoint pointQ = g.multiply(privateKey); 
> pointQ=pointQ.normalize();
> byte[] datax1=pointQ.getAffineXCoord().toBigInteger().toByteArray();
> byte[] datay1=pointQ.getAffineYCoord().toBigInteger().toByteArray();
> System.out.println(“Len X=“+ datax1.length+”  Y=“+datay1.length)
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