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Natural selection in IT (isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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That's a meme page. Do NOT submit your real private keys!

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To save anyone the trouble, here's a key I've generated just now:

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtzc2gtZW
QyNTUxOQAAACAqTGrNcWWZrKjDzAgG1KaCYAOOAoqSSQvvWVgUx7PdMgAAAJgzuRsTM7kb
EwAAAAtzc2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACAqTGrNcWWZrKjDzAgG1KaCYAOOAoqSSQvvWVgUx7PdMg
AAAEC8jODzrMngnvJlMwtlhqwlI6qS42WlzSDADbEYaCsRzCpMas1xZZmsqMPMCAbUpoJg
A44CipJJC+9ZWBTHs90yAAAAEXUwX2E0MzhAbG9jYWxob3N0AQIDBA==
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

(and if I did it wrong enough, well, you can hack me but please let me know how I fucked up)

Change any random character in there to see how the website reacts to a unique key. I changed an O to an o and it accepted it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    FWIW this is what I did:

    $ ssh-keygen -f fake_ssh_key

    (press Enter twice for no passphrase)

    and then:

    $ cat fake_ssh_key

    Which I then just copy-pasted from the terminal. Surely this can't reveal anything about my other private keys, right?

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