How is an SSH key useful ?

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  More secure and more convenient than passwords. If you are exposing SSH to the internet, you really shouldn’t have password authentication enabled

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are much harder to guess than most passwords that people use, to te point of being unfeasible to brute-force. This makes them a much more secure option than passwords.

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s also a lot easier to use. You don’t need a password, since it basically exists as a file.

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