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Natural selection in IT (isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com)

submitted 5 months ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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That's a meme page. Do NOT submit your real private keys!

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[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago

FWIW this is what I did:

$ ssh-keygen -f fake_ssh_key

(press Enter twice for no passphrase)

and then:

$ cat fake_ssh_key

Which I then just copy-pasted from the terminal. Surely this can't reveal anything about my other private keys, right?

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 16 points 5 months ago

Yes. It only reveals stuff about your defaults, which should be ed25519 globally now anyway.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 0 points 5 months ago

We know your unique machine ID now.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

I'll be impressed if you tell me what operating system I'm using.

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