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How to generate new ed25519 SSH host keys

30 August 2022 - Thomas Damgaard

The current best practice is to use ed25519 keys with ssh.

If you have some old ssh servers still using RSA host keys you might want to update those to use ed25519 host keys.

This is how to generate new ed25519 host keys for your SSH server:

ssh-keygen -q -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key -N "" -t ed25519

Then configure sshd_config to use the new key and decomission the old ones.

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