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Re:Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks by pavel_lishin on Thursday January 26, 2012 @10:01AM (#3514370)
Why, it's simple! They just send him their private key along with the passphrase, and he tests it to make sure it works!

(I've heard worse.)

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Re:Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks by mike-cardwell on Thursday January 26, 2012 @10:27AM (#3514462)
For the sake of those who may not realise: You can take a password protected ssh key and remove it's password protection (if you know the password). And do the opposite of course (adding a password to a key without one)
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