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by fragmede 780 days ago
It's quite useful! I can give someone access to my server by grabbing their public key and creating an account for them, no need figure out how to send them the password to my server.
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That's indeed how public keys are intended to work.
It's one of those obvious in hindsight things that gives me that "Internet was not a mistake" feels.