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> But OMG, entropy lolz

Public key authentication isn’t just providing more entropy than passwords.

Passwords (as used in SSH) are bearer tokens – send yours to the wrong server, once, and you‘re compromised, for this and future sessions. That’s not the case with public key authentication.



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