Nice try fbi you're not getting me that easy to give up my keys
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cmon man i aint never done nothin wrong with nobody's dang ssh keys. Jus lemme hold em
I think I got "cunT" once and gave myself a heart attack because I thought I had accidentally committed a frustrated debugging log message to a work repo. I found it while searching for swears but it was in a file I hadn't changed
frustrated debugging log message
Just use porn actresses' names. Or so a friend told me...
That would be a rare, shiny PEM
We had a system at work that generated 4 character alphanumeric reference numbers. Originally to avoid this they just excluded vowels from the letters but eventually they grew enough they ran out of available reference numbers so they added the vowels back in and I had to built the blacklist to avoid stuff like this happening. I reckon I probably tripped every IT filter known to man in a week long period looking for swear words in a variety of languages 😂
New blockchain just dropped
Trump's coin dropped already.
The explanation is that it's random. Generate enough random strings and you're bound to get everything.
my old technology teacher told me about one time his ssh key was the whole soliloquy from hamlet.
~~then he turned himself into a fuckin pickle. craziest thing I ever seent~~
EDIT nvm?
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?
I know that "Vanity Addresses" are a common thing for onion sites, and there are tools which generate tons of keys looking for prefixes. I haven't seen such a tool for ssh host keys though.
They exist, but they're not nearly as fleshed out as the bitcoin vanity generators are. https://github.com/danielewood/vanityssh-go
not particularly exciting I think I had 'dog' one time while distro hopping.
Should've been 'bunny'.
The explanation is pretty boring. If you look at https://superuser.com/questions/421997/what-is-a-ssh-key-fingerprint-and-how-is-it-generated it's explained that some fingerprints are displayed with Base64, which according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 allows the use of all 26 letters of the alphabet, and both the complete uppercase and lowercase sets.
So basically it's just random chance that a given fingerprint has some data that shows up as a word.
SSH keys can likewise use base64, e.g. for PEM format, as per https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/492704/what-encoding-is-used-for-the-keys-when-using-ssh-keygen-t-rsa