Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----”

Re:Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA ... by clarkey252 on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:42AM (#14891359)

Can someone explain why the inurl:server is used? Wouldn't this also work without that (and reveal more results where the keyfile has been renamed)

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Re:Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA ... by andygambles on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:46AM (#14891882)

I used inurl:server to restrict the results to mainly just server.key files so revealing the private keys of HTTPS websites.

Of course you can remove it. Just means more results to wade through.

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Re:Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA ... by dangerface on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:47AM (#14891397)

More results does not necessarily mean better results. They probably got more specific to remove references to documentation and such.

Another interesting thing about google is that this search may return results that are not found without the inurl:server

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Re:Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA ... by gargravarr on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:54AM (#14891436)

At a guess, this is to filter out SSH keys, which have an identical private key format, and we well know already how many of those get committed to GitHub. I think this is to highlight where the server's HTTPS key is visible.

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Re:Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA ... by nullandvoid on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:45AM (#14891380)

I'm curious also as i'm getting 5x the amount of results excluding the inurl name filter

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