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[-] TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

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