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

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "EB" == Eugene Bright <hexumg at gmail.com> writes:

EB> I found strange sentence in ssh-keygen man page. There is may be a misprint.

No, that is correct.

They couldn't find a good prime slightly under 512 bits, so chose the
Mersenne prime 2^521 - 1.

-JimC
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