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catmanjan on June 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My First 10 Minutes on a Server

One of the suggestions is to make sure your public key has the .pub extension, and they imply that if someone didn't include the extension they would be reprimanded - any reason for this in particular?

AlexCoventry on June 16, 2016 [–]

Having a reliable convention like that reduces the risk of someone accidentally copying their private key to a server.

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