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The bitcoin wiki explicitly says that secp256k1 is not characteristic 2: > secp256k1 has characteristic p, it is defined over the prime field ℤp. Some other cu
by gizmo686 5y ago
The bitcoin wiki explicitly says that secp256k1 is not characteristic 2:
> secp256k1 has characteristic p, it is defined over the prime field ℤp. Some other curves in common use have characteristic 2, and are defined over a binary Galois field GF(2^n), but secp256k1 is not one of them.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1