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

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• variants@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice try fbi you’re not getting me that easy to give up my keys

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    cmon man i aint never done nothin wrong with nobody’s dang ssh keys. Jus lemme hold em

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• NorthWestWind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  New blockchain just dropped

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trump’s coin dropped already.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That would be a rare, shiny PEM

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• cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you are obligated to share your entire known hosts file to prove this.

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hunter2

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    • bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Man this feels like deep lore at this point 😂

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨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.

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• bricklove@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I got “cunT” once and gave myself a heart attack because I thought I had accidentally committed a frustrated debugging log message to a work repo. I found it while searching for swears but it was in a file I hadn’t changed

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• Drusenija@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We had a system at work that generated 4 character alphanumeric reference numbers. Originally to avoid this they just excluded vowels from the letters but eventually they grew enough they ran out of available reference numbers so they added the vowels back in and I had to built the blacklist to avoid stuff like this happening. I reckon I probably tripped every IT filter known to man in a week long period looking for swear words in a variety of languages 😂

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The explanation is that it’s random. Generate enough random strings and you’re bound to get everything.

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    my old technology teacher told me about one time his ssh key was the whole soliloquy from hamlet.

    then he turned himself into a fuckin pickle. craziest thing I ever seent

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    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not particularly exciting I think I had ‘dog’ one time while distro hopping.

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• abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The explanation is pretty boring. If you look at https://superuser.com/questions/421997/what-is-a-ssh-key-fingerprint-and-how-is-it-generated it's explained that some fingerprints are displayed with Base64, which according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 allows the use of all 26 letters of the alphabet, and both the complete uppercase and lowercase sets.

  So basically it's just random chance that a given fingerprint has some data that shows up as a word.

  SSH keys can likewise use base64, e.g. for PEM format, as per https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/492704/what-encoding-is-used-for-the-keys-when-using-ssh-keygen-t-rsa

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