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> What does this mean? It means that SSH has authentication built into the protocol. When you join ssh-chat, not only do I know who you claim to be, but I can a

• pavel_lishin 2y ago
  > This, known as fingerprinting, is collectively considered a bad thing. I am thankful this isn't elsewhere I mean, it depends, right? If you only surfed the web or connected to chats with a single pubkey, then yes - that's probably sub-optimal. But pseudonymity, imo, works best when you can consistently prove that you own your identity, and that nobody can impersonate your pseudonymous account. (You can always burn it and get another one, or have multiples, etc, of course.) And pseudonymity is something that is, while contentious, is not collectively considered a bad thing.
• holsta 2y ago
  > This, known as fingerprinting, is collectively considered a bad thing. This is authentication. Fingerprinting is something else.
• RIMR 2y ago
  >I am thankful this isn't elsewhere Yeah, don't give anyone any ideas, or someone might do something crazy and start tracking everything we do on the web.
• zzo38computer 2y ago
  This is not really a problem with the SSH protocol itself, but with certain things that the implementations may do automatically (although it would be easy to change them to not do such things automatically). (This is unlike WWW. WWW is so complex and messy that it effectively does have fingerprinting and is difficult to change.)