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by jsjohnst 3540 days ago
> You can leave this blank or add a password for a little extra security (and a lot more typing).

Please please stop saying things like this. If typing the password is inconvenient to you, store it in your keychain. OS X/macOS makes this trivially easy. Having a pass phrase on your private key is (almost) as important as using a key with sufficient entropy.