diff --git a/src/constants.rs b/src/constants.rs
index f851d24..2aef036 100644
--- a/src/constants.rs
+++ b/src/constants.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 use field::FieldElement;
 use curve::PreComputedPoint;
-use curve::CompressedPoint;
+use curve::CompressedEdwardsY;
 
 pub const d: FieldElement       = FieldElement([
     -10913610,  13857413, -15372611,   6949391,    114729,
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ pub const HALF_Q_MINUS_1_BYTES: [u8; 32] = [ // halfQMinus1Bytes
 ///
 /// Generated with Sage: these are the bytes of 4/5 in 𝔽_p.  The
 /// sign bit is 0 since the basepoint has x chosen to be positive.
-pub const BASE_CMPRSSD: CompressedPoint =
-    CompressedPoint([0x58, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
-                     0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
-                     0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
-                     0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66]);
+pub const BASE_CMPRSSD: CompressedEdwardsY =
+    CompressedEdwardsY([0x58, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
+                        0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
+                        0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
+                        0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66]);
 
 pub const bi: [PreComputedPoint; 8] = [
     PreComputedPoint{