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Haha I started trying to format the text so that it was technically a valid ed25519 key, then it became too much work for a silly joke so I settled for filtering/replacing all the invalid chars and slapping the
==padding at the end. Needs more AAAAAA strings to really sell it, I think, but I'm glad it turned out well enough to merit a second glance lol.Edit: I swapped all instances of
fuck|fucker|fuckingwithAs, I think it's an improvement.It is very good - I will steal it.
Now reverse engineer a matching public key.
What do you mean "reverse engineer"? From
man ssh-keygen:Post the output when you run that on the key that was posted.
That's not a valid key. OpenSSH keys are not arbitrary bytes, they contain at least the type of the certificate used and a hostname.
The fact that this is not a valid key does not mean you need to reverse engineer public keys. By design you can just get a public key with a private one.
Someone help I'm being hacked!
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW