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[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

The == had me wondering for too long

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 38 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Haha I started trying to format the text so that it was technically a valid ed25519 key, then it became too much work for a silly joke so I settled for filtering/replacing all the invalid chars and slapping the == padding at the end. Needs more AAAAAA strings to really sell it, I think, but I'm glad it turned out well enough to merit a second glance lol.

Edit: I swapped all instances of fuck|fucker|fucking with As, I think it's an improvement.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 15 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

It is very good - I will steal it.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Now reverse engineer a matching public key.

What do you mean "reverse engineer"? From man ssh-keygen:

       -y      This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout.

Someone help I'm being hacked!

[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW