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by ok_computer 300 days ago
If you hadn’t discovered this already with you mac CLI commands, OpenSSH from OpenSSL ‘ssh-keygen’ command is a good way to create SSH keys in ClI and ships in many OSes or is a lightweight download. The OpenSSL website name is unambiguous, which is a benefit.

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...

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OpenSSH and OpenSSL are completely unrelated projects.
Independent projects but not unrelated since there was a historical dependency from OpenSSH to OpenSSL.

https://serverfault.com/questions/780476/generating-ssh-keys...

My knowledge was a bit outdated by about a decade.

Ssh-keygen is what I ended up using. At chatgpt recommendation