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Discussion on: Protect Your AWS EC2 Private Key with a Yubico Static Password

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Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Great stuff. I was wondering what to do with my old key, now I know :)

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Emmanuel C Flint

If all goes well with adding the password to your .pem then you can keep using it as previous, but with an added password prompt. That process I described simply updates your existing .pem file. But try it out on a copy of your original .pem file, just in case. And don't forget to follow the steps I outlined on an expendable EC2 before trying it out on production.