[PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

Russell Johnson russ at dimstar.net
Sun Jul 6 17:31:05 UTC 2014


On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:

> The main thing is that you are sure you have the right public key.
> So, you could pipe the public key through sha512sum or something and
> recite the hash over the phone to be sure it's the same at both ends.
> The public key doesn't need to be secret.


Those are the important bits. One of the great things about public/private keys is it does not matter who has the public key. It only matters who has the private key. Many people have posted their public key on their web site, etc. 

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net






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