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Monero uses Ed25519, which has a cofactor of 8. This means the curve has a prime order l = 2^252 + 27742317777372353535851937790883648493 and the total number of possible points on the curve is 8l. The number of points in the group of the base point is l.

The cofactor results in 4 small subgroups. What are the compressed hex representations of those subgroup points?

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Small subgroup of size 1:

0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Small subgroup of size 2:

ecffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff7f
0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Small subgroup of size 4:

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
ecffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff7f
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080
0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Small subgroup of size 8:
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Note that the ordering of the points listed above is such that the first member of the group, when added repeatedly, results in the subsequent points in the group.

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