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crypto: remove POINT_CONVERSION_HYBRID from documentation.

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Compressed points are already rare and, as far as I know, nobody has used
the 'hybrid' format anywhere, ever. It's prohibited in X.509
certificates too[1].

This change removes mentions of it from the documentation in the
interests of trying to pare-down the complexity of cryptography.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5480#section-2.2

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4956
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@iij.ad.jp
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Adam Langley 2016-01-27 14:38:07 -08:00 committed by James M Snell
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@ -472,9 +472,9 @@ Generates private and public EC Diffie-Hellman key values, and returns
the public key in the specified `format` and `encoding`. This key should be
transferred to the other party.
The `format` arguments specifies point encoding and can be `'compressed'`,
`'uncompressed'`, or `'hybrid'`. If `format` is not specified, the point will
be returned in `'uncompressed'` format.
The `format` argument specifies point encoding and can be `'compressed'` or
`'uncompressed'`. If `format` is not specified, the point will be returned in
`'uncompressed'` format.
The `encoding` argument can be `'latin1'`, `'hex'`, or `'base64'`. If
`encoding` is provided a string is returned; otherwise a [`Buffer`][]
@ -491,9 +491,9 @@ a string is returned; otherwise a [`Buffer`][] is returned.
Returns the EC Diffie-Hellman public key in the specified `encoding` and
`format`.
The `format` argument specifies point encoding and can be `'compressed'`,
`'uncompressed'`, or `'hybrid'`. If `format` is not specified the point will be
returned in `'uncompressed'` format.
The `format` argument specifies point encoding and can be `'compressed'` or
`'uncompressed'`. If `format` is not specified the point will be returned in
`'uncompressed'` format.
The `encoding` argument can be `'latin1'`, `'hex'`, or `'base64'`. If
`encoding` is specified, a string is returned; otherwise a [`Buffer`][] is