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Comment by Elucalidavah

2 days ago

But the SSH keys are based on asymmetric crypto, not shared secrets.

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dagss  2 days ago

That makes it impossible to steal the key if you MITM, but there is still the same chance of guessing it. (Assuming password has as many bits of pure randomness, such as machine generated password.)

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