The latest articles on DEV Community by Marco B. (@beinbm). https://dev.to/beinbm https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F702774%2F2c28d991-e294-4249-9320-6e584c843395.jpg https://dev.to/beinbm en Marco B. Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:19:51 +0000 https://dev.to/gotphoto/how-to-create-a-new-ssh-key-d9a https://dev.to/gotphoto/how-to-create-a-new-ssh-key-d9a <p>As a software developer it is common to connect to various services via SSH. Be it a remote SQL database or Git or a web server, we mostly use SSH to connect to the server.</p> <p>Password authentication is not up to date anymore and short SSH RSA keys do not provide the expected security.</p> <p>Good that there is ed25519 :)</p> <p>You can generate a key with the following command<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "mail@example.com" </code></pre> </div> <p>You'll be asked where to save the key. The default location is <code>~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub</code></p> <p>Then you can copy your public key to the server. To show it use following command<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub </code></pre> </div> ssh key ed25519