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A comment on Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys? by sztwiorok on Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:04AM (#12574823)
I agree with following comment.i was wrong. Thanks asdfaoeu for it.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys? by asdfaoeu on Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:09AM (#12574833)
> Private key is a "password", we need to treat it as such!

This is harmful advice in my opinion. A key has sufficient entropy to resist brute force attacks and is never directly exposed to a server. The same key between multiple servers is fine.

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