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Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had changed the SSH password on something so I had to dig through my known hosts file, and saw the word FUCK spelled out in there in all caps. I chuckled but am sure there's an explanation

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The ~/.ssh/known_hosts file only contains public keys. I mean, maybe someone doesn't want to hand out the list of hosts that they talk to, but exposing it doesn't expose the private keys, which are what you really need to keep secret.

Those are in ~/.ssh/id_rsa or the like, depending upon key type.