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How can a key twelve times shorter be just as secure?
A 256-bit elliptic-curve key should be about as hard to break as a 3,072-bit RSA key, and Bitcoin has signed its transactions with elliptic curves from the start.
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A 256-bit elliptic-curve key should be about as hard to break as a 3,072-bit RSA key, and Bitcoin has signed its transactions with elliptic curves from the start.
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