# RustCrypto: Elliptic Curve Traits
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General purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support, including types
and traits for representing various elliptic curve forms, scalars, points,
and public/secret keys composed thereof.
[Documentation][docs-link]
## Minimum Supported Rust Version
Requires Rust **1.44** or higher.
Minimum supported Rust version can be changed in the future, but it will be
done with a minor version bump.
## SemVer Policy
- All on-by-default features of this library are covered by SemVer
- MSRV is considered exempt from SemVer as noted above
## License
All crates licensed under either of
* [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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