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I assume this is a joke comment because I have never heard of passing a private key (the contents of one, not the file name) as a command line argument. It’d be

I assume this is a joke comment because I have never heard of passing a private key (the contents of one, not the file name) as a command line argument. It’d be ten times worse than asking what someone’s wifi password was and being told some 40-digit hex string.

ben_bai 5y ago
i.e. with 7z (7zip) you have to specify the encode password as a command line argument. jikes
nullc 5y ago
People pass private keys on command-lines, particularly with ecc crypto (because the keys are short). It's a really bad idea, but that doesn't mean it isn't sometimes done.