
It keeps both keys (as well as the alt list itself) stored on your computer. Wurst simply encrypts your alt list with its public RSA key and decrypts it again with the private RSA key, completely offline. Wurst's keypair is deliberately called wurst_rsa because nothing else would ever use that name. Again, Wurst doesn't touch any of those files, so it doesn't mess with SSH at all. SSH won't care about any keys that aren't stored in authorized_keys, id_rsa, or known_hosts. Like I said, RSA is used for all kinds of things. But RSA keys don't have to be used to login to SSH.
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Instead of sending your password to the server, you just decrypt a random message with the private key to prove that you have it. SSH uses RSA keys instead of passwords, because it's safer. This is useful because you can give someone only the public key and thereby give them permission to only encrypt messages, but not decrypt them. You can encrypt something with one key and then decrypt it with the other, but if you only know one of the keys you can't figure out what the other one is. RSA (and similar algorithms) are actually a super useful technology that's used for all kinds of different things.

I want to be 100% clear about this: Wurst never touches that file. That file holds the record of who is allowed to use SSH to control your computer (if you even have SSH enabled). What your friend was likely referencing is the authorized_keys file, which is also located in the. Just placing these files there doesn't do anything.

To clarify further: Wurst 6 placed two files in the. Newer Wurst versions (v7.x) store the keys in a folder called ".Wurst encryption", along with a TXT file to explain their purpose to any user who stumbles upon them. Even though this is a perfectly safe place to put the keys, I changed the location after receiving a few emails from worried users like your friend. ssh folder, because that's where RSA keys are normally stored. gradlew build Usage Right shift opens the GUI. Older versions of Wurst (v6.x) placed these keys in the. If you want to compile your own binaries use the following commands. No, these are RSA keys that are used to encrypt your alt list file.
