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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your private keys? by aeternum on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:05PM (#21055128)
This still isn't very useful. Suppose you have a database, and an elastic number of workers that need to connect.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your private keys? by nabdab on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:52AM (#21056937)
Still good advice. Generate a keypair on each new machine and only ever move around public keys.

If you are copying over private keys to connect, or reusing private keys, you are doing something wrong.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your private keys? by spartas on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @07:47AM (#21058928)
The most common weak security point in any system is people. If you are sharing keys and you ever need to revoke a shared key, you're in for a bad time
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