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What is the meaning behind all those memes about the security key 4? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought 4 was the password to recover or lock the private key. Been out of IT for awhile, what am I missing? For example, how could I use 4 to get the private key?

[–] Bryan065@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

4 is the private key

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

JFC, that's worse than I imagined. Thought it was a recovery thing, but now I'm questioning if that's even possible. What am I thinking of? I could swear I've entered a password making key pairs.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

ssh-keygen prompts for an optional password, but it's just for permissions for your local private key file. So it would be like having an additional password on a text file that just contains "4"