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ars on July 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who's your SSH buddy?

Encrypt your private key!

This is very easy to do, and quite important for devices that can be stolen - including your desktop computer.

It's easy enough to setup ssh-agent on your desktop so you don't have to keep entering the password.

icebraining on July 25, 2011 [–]

If you have a copy of the private key and the public key, you can bruteforce the passphrase. So use a big passphrase instead of a password.

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