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		the8472 on Aug 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are > It's fairly pointless If it enables security research it's already a win in my eyes. Might expose classes of weak keys in the future for example.

chrisfosterelli on Aug 4, 2015 [–]

Great point. That's already happened, and a lot of weak keys were found [0].

[0] https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys

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