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[–] 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Haha I started trying to format the text so that it was technically a valid ed25519 key, then it became too much work for a silly joke so I settled for filtering/replacing all the invalid chars and slapping the == padding at the end. Needs more AAAAAA strings to really sell it, I think, but I'm glad it turned out well enough to merit a second glance lol.

Edit: I swapped all instances of fuck|fucker|fucking with As, I think it's an improvement.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    It is very good - I will steal it.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Now reverse engineer a matching public key.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What do you mean "reverse engineer"? From man ssh-keygen:

           -y      This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout.
    
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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Post the output when you run that on the key that was posted.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago*

    That's not a valid key. OpenSSH keys are not arbitrary bytes, they contain at least the type of the certificate used and a hostname.

    The fact that this is not a valid key does not mean you need to reverse engineer public keys. By design you can just get a public key with a private one.

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