This directory contains specification files for some elliptic curves
of the set of curves recommended by the NIST.
Each specification file is titled as the curve which parameters it
contains. The file named B-163, for example, contains the parameters
of the recommended elliptic curve with the same name.
The contents of the B-163 file are:

163
7
6
3
0
0x1
0xdf5023a44787f21501be1841ac359c8b709106a02
0x63e3438e7364994d8611990ae75d2a68261abe0f3
0x1f423797c0c5c11b545ddc2af4900a17c6cbf15d0
5846006549323611672814742442876390689256843201587

The first five lines give us the irreductible polynomial of the
underlying finite field. That is,

163
7
6
3
0

give us the polynomial Phi(t)=t^163+t^7+t^6+t^3+1.
The next two lines give us the two parameters of the elliptic curve
equation y^2+xy=x^3+ax^2+b. That is,

a=0x1
b=0xdf5023a44787f21501be1841ac359c8b709106a02

The next two lines are the coordinates of the generating point:

0x63e3438e7364994d8611990ae75d2a68261abe0f3
0x1f423797c0c5c11b545ddc2af4900a17c6cbf15d0

And the last one is the order of this point:

5846006549323611672814742442876390689256843201587
