• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s… Literally just a long password.

    I assumed you were talking about a private key as in cryptographic private key, where your data is encrypted on the remote server and your private key is required for it to be decrypted and for you to use it.

    If you just talking about something to get into an SSH key then all that is is a longer password.

    • jdeath@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      not at all. are you expected to remember it? would it even be possible to memorize for most? not even close to the same thing, passwords have very low entropy which causes all their problems