Post #3841169
2026-07-15 17:27 UTC
Everyone knows that an SSH key needs to be very long to be secure. But what if ... no?
Sadly, even an 8-bit key has a ton of protocol. I was really hoping to have keys that a human could memorize, but they still end up being more than forty characters long.
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MB0CAQACAgFDAgEFAgIArQIBEwIBEQIBCwIBDQIBCQ==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MBswDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADCgAwBwICAUMCAQU=
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange 2026-07-15 20:22
@mdwyer@mastodon.social Does it have to be base64 encoded?