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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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[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just gave away my private key used to access my vps via ssh.

The website is secured with SSL ✓ and network traffic encrypted with TLSv1.3 ✓. Furthermore, the website uses IPv6 ✓ and my private key is encrypted with AES256 ✓✓✓. Nobody else can access it.

[-] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And? What was the result? Is your key safe to use?

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