@jeison

SSH keys are a great authentication method using public-key cryptography for authentication. I use SSH keys mostly to remote login on other computer systems and authenticate myself on GIT services like GitHub, GitLab or bitbucket. Last edits: (August 14, 2026): Added note about ssh-copy-id to easily copy public ssh keys to a remote server. Create SSH keys Create your own SSH key, like this: This will generate a ED25519 key, which is a rather new EdDSA scheme. Because ED25519 are not supported by some older / embedded system I recommend to create a RSA key in addition. This will create two…