OpenSSH’s ssh-keygen command just got a great upgrade.
New video from @vkc@mspsocial.net
Edit:
She has a peertube channel: !veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube and it federatess as a Lemmy Community
The Peertube video in Lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/8842820
i don’t think I’ve created an RSA key since 2017
A surprising amount of services (including Azure last I tried) can only handle RSA keys, so after trying ecdsa only for a while I ended up adding a RSA key again.
With that said - it’s 2023, in almost all cases you should have your keys in a hardware module nowadays, in which case you’d use a different command for keygeneration.
Do you have a link for storing keys in hardware? I have no idea how you’d do that.
I had to create one this year after discovering that connectbot (ssh client on Android) didn’t support agent forwarding otherwise.
Probably a good idea to look for a different client, call me tinfoil but I wouldn’t want to touch a very old mechanism that is supported/pushed by a very recognisable 3 letter agency
Probably. It’s in f-droid but increasingly looking not quite unmaintained, but not developed actively enough.
I’ve just started using SSH inside of Termux, got tired of all the weird pitfalls SSH Clients for Android usually have