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Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

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637 points h1x | 1 comments | 13 Nov 21 09:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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teekert ◴[13 Nov 21 14:26 UTC] No.29209947[source]▶
Is it possible to encrypt something with an ssh pubkey and then decrypt with the corresponding privkey? GPG-style?
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1. Gargyle ◴[13 Nov 21 14:29 UTC] No.29209956[source]▶
That happens as part of the ssh handshake. And is the basis of this whole scheme. No idea if there is tooling to.do.that for arbitrary messages.