Tag: passphrase
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Return of the 007 SSH Agent
Years ago when I first stared listening to podcasts when I had barely worked at PRWeb for a year even, I came up with a piece of shell script to automatically start up an ssh-agent and ask for your passphrase. Unfortunately, the code created tons of ssh-agents, which was unfortunate. Here is a version that…
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on the usability of passphrases
Ok, finally had a moment to fully read the articlepassword usability and digest. My first thot is, there are some places this logic should not apply, like in situations where offline brute forcing is possible (like theft of password hashes), and not applicable to wifi routers, and cases where sites take only small (8-char) passwords.…
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OpenSSH Public Key Authentication
This looks like a good guide on using ssh-keygen, the authorized_keys file, and using ssh-agent. OpenSSH Public Key Authentication.
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