What encoding is used for the keys when using `ssh-keygen -t rsa`?
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When I run: ssh-keygen -t rsa to generate a public/private key pair in files e.g. id_rsa.pub and id_rsa, my understanding is that the public key encodes a prime number p, and the private key encodes a number pq. But when I open these files I don't see human-readable numbers, I see sequences of characters. So my question is simply: what am I looking at? Are these characters directly mappable to numbers and, if so, by what convention/algorithm/encoding?
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asked Jan 5 at 20:25
Anastasius Vivaldus Anastasius Vivaldus
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