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So What’s So Important About Your OpenSSH Keys?

If it wasn’t for public key encryption the Internet would be an almost untrusted place. Basically, it secures the key generation for the creation of a secure tunnel (with ECDH), it checks the identity of the Web sites we connect to (using RSA and ECDSA signatures), and it allows us to digitally sign things for our identity.