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		teekert on Nov 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys Is it possible to encrypt something with an ssh pubkey and then decrypt with the corresponding privkey? GPG-style?

fanf2 on Nov 13, 2021 | [–]

Yes, with https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

Gargyle on Nov 13, 2021 | [–]

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.

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