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At my current job we are often creating many ssh keys with ssh-keygen (RSA). One thing I have noticed is that the first few characters (say the first 5 or so) of the private key are consistently the same. These are all created on the same computer. Is this to be expected? I am just curious why this would be the case.

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    Does this answer your question: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/5944/why-do-all-ssh-rsa-keys-begin-with-aaaab3nzac1yc?rq=1 – mikeazo Nov 25 '15 at 00:45
  • Sorry I should have been clearer, I am looking at the private, not public, keys. Is there a similar concept with private ssh keys? – Andras Kiss Nov 25 '15 at 00:50
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    Edit your question to make it clear you are talking about private keys. I think that it is something similar, though. – mikeazo Nov 25 '15 at 03:09
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    And please include an example private key in string format (hexadecimals if binary). List the program + version you used to create the key pair & stored the private key for. – Maarten Bodewes Nov 25 '15 at 08:45

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