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Where are my private/public SSH keys on UNIX?
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I'm starting to understand how RSA and public/private key systems work, and I was wondering where my private and public SSH key are stored. When I go to my home directory, and I browse my .ssh directory (cd .ssh), I only see the "known_hosts" file, which I guess contains the public keys of differen…
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and usually. But it doesn't follow that ssh must create a pair and save them: ssh basically uses the SSL protocol, which establishes a session key using the Diffie/Hellman key-exchange algorithm or some variant. That means the handshake setting up t…
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