How to determine which cipher was used to encrypt OpenSSH private keys

Jim Knoble jmknoble at pobox.com
Thu Jan 25 04:51:37 AEDT 2024


On Jan 24, 2024, at 08:38, Joost van Dijk <vandijk.joost at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And given that this code is reading your private key files, I guess I should have added "if you trust its developer" 
> Otherwise, I'd stick with the shell script or python snippet.

Especially since the Python module seems to require key decryption for an operation that does not require key decryption.

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jmk


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