Utility to scan for unpassworded SSH privkeys?

Dan Kaminsky dan at doxpara.com
Fri May 24 11:41:44 EST 2013


Some being the operative word.

(And no, not crapping on good work.  Prepping to do quite a bit *more*
work.)


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:39:56PM -0700, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> > Effectively nobody passphrases their ssh keys.  They're used as a way
> > to *suppress* password entry in the real world -- use this, and things
> > just work rather than poking you each time.
>
> Well some people do use ssh-agent or equivalent so the key is at least
> encrypted on disk.
>
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