Check SSH Key Fingerprints

Published: 19 August 2021

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Show the fingerprint of an SSH key

$ ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

The default hashing is sha256, however it might be more useful to see the fingerprint in md5.

$ ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa