SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and NPM packages

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  • openssh-portable

    Portable OpenSSH

  • The key layout is described in https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROT... and you can view it pretty easily via

    cat private_key_here | head -n -1 | tail -n +2 | base64 -d | xxd

    One I created in 2016 is using aes256-cbc with bcrypt for the kdf, which isn't awful at all.

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