How, if at all, do SSH keys differ from asymmetric keys used for other purposes?
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How, if at all, do SSH keys differ from asymmetric keys used for other purposes, e.g. email signing? I'm prompted to ask this, in part, because on OS X, there are apps available to manage SSH keys (ssh-agent, SSHKeychain, etc) as well as apps designed to manage GPG keys (GPG Keychain Access, etc), …
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SSH keys are just plain RSA, DSA, or ECDSA asymmetric key pairs. Such a keypair generated by OpenSSH can already be used by OpenSSL and most other programs. (The file output by is in OpenSSH-specific format, but that is irrelevant since the "private…
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