Correct breakdown of the name of secp256k1?

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sec Standards for Efficient Cryptography
256 256bit prime
k1 Koblitz curve no. 1
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Ben

Posted 2019-02-17T10:18:54.607

Reputation: 101

Yes, that is correct.MCCCS 2019-02-17T14:19:31.737

Should be p256 for curve over a prime finite field (which mathematicians abbreviate Fp) with a 256-bit (prime) modulus. The much-less-used sec t <n> {k,r}<i> curves are over F2^n fields, finite extension fields with characteristic two, where the t abbreviates two.dave_thompson_085 2019-02-17T22:18:53.597

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