So, at some point in the recent past (I don’t think I noticed when), ssh-keygen started displaying a “randomart” representation of keys that it generates:
fanty:~ evan$ ssh-keygen -f test -C evan Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in test. Your public key has been saved in test.pub. The key fingerprint is: 20:e9:b0:5b:5a:2b:ad:e8:4d:e4:b3:a0:32:49:2d:97 evan The key's randomart image is: +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | | | . | | . o . | | + . . | | o.= S | | ooE . | |.o*+o | |=.+oo | |=o.o | +-----------------+
Does anybody know why or what it’s supposed to mean?