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ropnop blog
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ropnop blog is a personal blog at blog.ropnop.com about security and programming. Since 2017, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on extracting SSH private keys from the Windows ssh-agent, Windows OpenSSH, and setting up a better Windows terminal experience.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-21
- Upgrading shells to fully interactive TTYs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-10
- How to Store Session Tokens in a Browser (and the Impacts of Each)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-06
- Docker for Pentesters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-19
What Hacker News says?
Useful reading: https://blog.netspi.com/stealing-unencrypted-ssh-agent-keys-... https://blog.ropnop.com/extracting-ssh-private-keys-from-win...
Comment linking /extracting-ssh-private-keys-from-windows-10-ssh-agent/
on “Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH”Submitted Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent as a story · 148 points
HN discussionThere are ways to get much better terminal experience for typical web dev https://blog.ropnop.com/configuring-a-pretty-and-usable-term... (also works for tilix)
Comment linking /configuring-a-pretty-and-usable-terminal-emulator-for-wsl/
on “Inside the Windows Console”Submitted Extracting SSH Private Keys From Windows 10 SSH-agent (2018) as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThe author of this blog must have uploaded an image without the big red block to mask the private key, realized their error, and replaced it with an image of it blocked. However they didn't remove the unblocked image first. Ghost (the blog engine here) just appends a number to the image when you replace it without changing the filename, so it's easy to find. See the two URLs below: https://blog.ropnop.com/content/im…
Comment linking /content/images/2018/05/base64_decode_openssh-1.png
on “Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent”Submitted Docker for Pentesters as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 Ssh-Agent as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Attacking Default Installs of Helm on Kubernetes as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Store Session Tokens in a Browser (and the Impacts of Each) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proxying and Intercepting CLI Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading shells to fully interactive TTYs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Store Session Tokens in a Browser (and the Impacts of Each) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker for Pentesters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading simple shells to fully interactive TTYs as a story · 1 points
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