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by vasqw 1265 days ago
It's important for the title to say (2016) because things have changed A LOT.
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Care to elaborate?
OpenSSH private keys are now their own format, not ASN.1 encoded. There is still two 4 byte "checkint" values that can vary (but must match), but less redundant overall.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.key?anno...