# Re: Stealing Coins

Post by: satoshi on July 25, 2010, 10:27:36 PM

Sorry, actually it's ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) not RSA.  I shouldn't have said "prime numbers".  ECDSA doesn't take much time to generate a keypair.

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