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    Ed25519-base-prime

    The Ed25519 base field prime.

    The Ed25519 base field prime is the size of the finite field over which the Edwards curve Ed25519 is defined. This prime is used for all field arithmetic operations in the curve.

    The prime is computed as:

    2^255 - 19

    See also RFC 8032 and RFC 7748