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+Utilities
+
+	This directory contains various random poorly-documented tools
+	which are useful to maintainers of the software.
+
+	Don't put this stuff in the distribution until it's much better.
+
+ecptdecompress.c
+	Compile (using qcc) to ecptd.  Run
+		ecptd CURVE R H G
+	where CURVE is a curve-spec, R and H are the curve's order and
+	cofactor, and G is the common point in standard point
+	representation, hybrid, compressed or uncomressed.  It either
+	prints an error indicating that the curve or point was bad, or a
+	chunk to be inserted into ectab.in.
+
+ecentry-prettify.pl
+	Run 
+		ecentry-prettify.pl NAME FIELD-TYPE
+	and enter P, A, B, R, H and G by pasting from some appropriate
+	standard, terminating each one by a `.' on its own line.
+	Spacing and punctuation in each is stripped. and ecptdecompress
+	is run to format the whole thing into a nice ectab.in chunk.
+
+
+Local variables:
+mode: text
+End:
+