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What `BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY` Means (and What It Doesn’t)
Seeing -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY----- at the top of a key file tells you how the key is packaged. It does not tell you whether the key is RSA, ECDSA, or Ed25519. That distinction matters when you’re checking a key, troubleshooting an “invalid format” error, or handing it to software that…