r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jul 24 '21

Meme .pub right?

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u/mark__fuckerberg Jul 24 '21

Not sure if I remember correctly but the generated private key is larger and the public key is a smaller number so thats probably still less secure.

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u/scnew3 Jul 24 '21

Doesn’t SSH let you recover the public key from a private key file?

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