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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by kbolino on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:01PM (#40047973)
The benefit of EC is not speed, it is much smaller key sizes.

Roughly speaking, an RSA key has to be 8 times as large as an EC key for the same security level.

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