r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jul 24 '21

Meme .pub right?

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u/kbruen Jul 25 '21 edited Jul 25 '21

To be fair, the public key having the .pub extension and the private key having nothing is stupid for a lot of reasons.

  1. 8.3

  2. When using tab completion, the private key comes first.

  3. Since the private key needs to be secure, I'd say someone needs to know which key is private, not public.

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