Answer by Doug Pan for Recover an SSH private key?
The only thing you can do quickly is generate a new set of private and public key sets and replace the public keys on the servers you are trying to access, however, to do this you must have physical...
View ArticleAnswer by James L for Recover an SSH private key?
If I understand correctly, you want to generate a compatible private key from the public key. If this was possible, the whole system would be pointless. If you do manage it, I'd like to know how to I...
View ArticleAnswer by DrDamnit for Recover an SSH private key?
It is absolutely impossible to recover a private key from a public key. You can generate a public from a private, but not the other way around. It is completely impossible, and is also the point of...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris S for Recover an SSH private key?
Presently the only way of "recovering" the Private key from the Public key is by exhaustive search (brute force). The system was specifically designed this way so that you could issue your public key...
View ArticleAnswer by Richard for Recover an SSH private key?
I'm pretty sure there's no way of recovering the private key if you have the public key - this would be a big security risk otherwise, because anyone with a public key would then be able to determine...
View ArticleRecover an SSH private key?
I have an RSA key (generated by PuTTYgen) that's set up for logging in to a bunch of machines via SSH. Or rather, i HAD such a key. (The computer it was on crashed, to the point that a reinstall of XP...
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