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Natural selection in IT (isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com)

submitted 2 days ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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That's a meme page. Do NOT submit your real private keys!

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I just gave away my private key used to access my vps via ssh.

The website is secured with SSL ✓ and network traffic encrypted with TLSv1.3 ✓. Furthermore, the website uses IPv6 ✓ and my private key is encrypted with AES256 ✓✓✓. Nobody else can access it.

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And? What was the result? Is your key safe to use?