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@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ The speeds on other machines may vary. Sign/verify times will be higher with
 longer messages. The implementation significantly benefits from 64 bit
 architectures, if possible compile as 64 bit.
 
-As a comparison, OpenSSL's RSA-2048 implementation (which has a lower security
-level than Ed25519) got 143 signatures per second and 4644 verifications per
-second on the same machine.
-
 
 Usage
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