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No FUD intended, was genuinely asking. I recalled this 2018 article[0] titled, "The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext" and was wondering i
by fbdab103 3y ago
No FUD intended, was genuinely asking.
I recalled this 2018 article[0] titled, "The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext" and was wondering if it is still true. Safe practices are a moving target. One on which I am not qualified to answer, hence my queries.
Good to know that OpenSSH is improving, but is the future uniformly distributed? If you are running a Redhat LTS release, are you getting a secure by default private key protection, or do you have to invoke the correct command?
I default to Github's keygen recommendations, but I can believe that others will run ssh-keygen without arguments.
[0] https://latacora.github.io/blog/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh/ https://latacora.github.io/blog/2018/08/03/the-default-opens...
- enasterosophes 3y agoThanks for your considered response :) I went a bit hyperbolic there, I appreciate that you answered calmly instead of biting. I can't speak to Redhat LTS, but I believe they care about security and I've never heard of a compromized Redhat server. As for whether you can then take your private keys from such a server and publish them, I wouldn't advise it, but then again, I wouldn't advise it in general.