Does ssh-keygen really allow 521 bit ECDSA key generation?

[Christian Hesse]

Eugene Bright <hexumg at gmail.com> on Wed, 2015/02/25 16:12:
> Hello!
> 
> I found strange sentence in ssh-keygen man page. There is may be a misprint.

You are referring the fact that 521 is not the power of base 2?
Looks like this is valid nevertheless.

% ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 512
Invalid ECDSA key length - valid lengths are 256, 384 or 521 bits
% ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521
Generating public/private ecdsa key pair.
[...]

Wikipedia adds a note about this as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#cite_note-25
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