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Is it a security risk to allow anyone to see your SSH public key?
My public key(s) are on all the machines I login to regularly, and I've also given other sysadmins my .pub file so they allow me access to their servers, as required.
But: how safe is it to publish my public SSH keys for the entire world to see? There are plenty listed in various github repos, dotfiles and the like, and I'm also considering doing the same. I'm a sysadmin, and paranoid (but I repeat myself...) and so would appreciate some clarification.
4@LazyBadger is not too lazy to complain about the given answer, but too lazy to provide the correct answer – 75th Trombone – 2015-05-12T16:34:59.913
2I'm afraid, you selected wrong place to ask. IT Security or CS or Math sites seems as more appropriate places. And accepted by you answer is wrong, plain crystal-clearly wrong in all three statements – Lazy Badger – 2012-03-24T15:16:50.637