diff --git a/src/abstract/hash-to-curve.ts b/src/abstract/hash-to-curve.ts
index b5a88d9..40395d8 100644
--- a/src/abstract/hash-to-curve.ts
+++ b/src/abstract/hash-to-curve.ts
@@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ export function expand_message_xof(
  * @returns [u_0, ..., u_(count - 1)], a list of field elements.
  */
 export function hash_to_field(msg: Uint8Array, count: number, options: Opts): bigint[][] {
+  validateObject(options, {
+    DST: 'string',
+    p: 'bigint',
+    m: 'isSafeInteger',
+    k: 'isSafeInteger',
+    hash: 'hash',
+  });
   const { p, k, m, hash, expand, DST: _DST } = options;
   isBytes(msg);
   isNum(count);
@@ -191,13 +198,6 @@ export function createHasher<T>(
   mapToCurve: MapToCurve<T>,
   def: Opts & { encodeDST?: UnicodeOrBytes }
 ) {
-  validateObject(def, {
-    DST: 'string',
-    p: 'bigint',
-    m: 'isSafeInteger',
-    k: 'isSafeInteger',
-    hash: 'hash',
-  });
   if (typeof mapToCurve !== 'function') throw new Error('mapToCurve() must be defined');
   return {
     // Encodes byte string to elliptic curve
diff --git a/src/ed25519.ts b/src/ed25519.ts
index 8d457b3..1240d6b 100644
--- a/src/ed25519.ts
+++ b/src/ed25519.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   ensureBytes,
 } from './abstract/utils.js';
 import * as htf from './abstract/hash-to-curve.js';
+import { AffinePoint } from './abstract/curve.js';
 
 /**
  * ed25519 Twisted Edwards curve with following addons:
@@ -309,6 +310,11 @@ export class RistrettoPoint {
   // Private property to discourage combining ExtendedPoint + RistrettoPoint
   // Always use Ristretto encoding/decoding instead.
   constructor(private readonly ep: ExtendedPoint) {}
+
+  static fromAffine(ap: AffinePoint<bigint>) {
+    return new RistrettoPoint(ed25519.ExtendedPoint.fromAffine(ap))
+  }
+
   /**
    * Takes uniform output of 64-bit hash function like sha512 and converts it to `RistrettoPoint`.
    * The hash-to-group operation applies Elligator twice and adds the results.
@@ -427,3 +433,13 @@ export class RistrettoPoint {
     return new RistrettoPoint(this.ep.multiplyUnsafe(scalar));
   }
 }
+
+// https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve/14/
+// Appendix B.  Hashing to ristretto255
+export const hash_to_ristretto255 = (msg: Uint8Array, options: htf.htfBasicOpts) => {
+  const d = options.DST;
+  const DST = typeof d === 'string' ? utf8ToBytes(d) : d;
+  const uniform_bytes = htf.expand_message_xmd(msg, DST, 64, sha512);
+  const P = RistrettoPoint.hashToCurve(uniform_bytes)
+  return P;
+};