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		_pvxk on April 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I tripped over the Debian weak keys vulnerabil... The AAAA (and several of the following characters) is just a header showing what type of key it is: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/5944/why-do-all-s...

denton-scratch on April 9, 2024 [–]

That's the header on the public key itself; the fingerprint GP referred to doesn't have a "header".

tedunangst on April 9, 2024 | [–]

The broken keys didn't all have fingerprints of AAAA either.

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