ssh key fingerprint information
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Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 11:54 on 8 March 2012
Use ssh-keygen
with the -l option
(that's a lowercase L). You'll need to specify the -f [file]
option, too, as you could have more than one .pub
file (dsa, rsa, etc.).
dymock[1030]% ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub 1024 2a:12:ab:34:cd:56:ef:44:78:aa:9a:bb:dd:cc:66:f8 /home/kitt/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (DSA)
When in doubt, man ssh-keygen
% man ssh-keygen ... -l Show fingerprint of specified public key file. Private RSA1 keys are also supported. For RSA and DSA keys ssh-keygen tries to find the matching public key file and prints its fingerprint. If combined with -v, an ASCII art representation of the key is supplied with the fingerprint. ...
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