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This exposes your public key through /whois <username>. In order to protect that along with hiding your system's default username, join with "ssh -o PubkeyAuthe
by publicfig 12y ago
This exposes your public key through /whois <username>. In order to protect that along with hiding your system's default username, join with "ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no <username>@chat.shazow.net"
- sloppiiiii 12y agoWhy does that matter if it is a public key?
- falcolas 12y agoTheoretically, for DSA and RSA keys under 1024 bytes, they can be brute forced. If you have one of these keys, you won't want to expose them. It's security through obscurity, but obscurity in addition to real security offers no real harm.
- rakoo 12y agoBetter yet, choose your public key depending on the server you're connecting to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#Managing_multiple_keys https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#Managing_multi...