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jpf / lokey

lokey

A tool that makes it easy to work with and convert between cryptographic key formats

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
97GitHub stars
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What it is

A tool that makes it easy to work with and convert between cryptographic key formats

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-17 16:18:40 UTC to 2022-02-09 14:44:22 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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One brittle, brute force method to do this (RSA-style) a decade ago was LD_PRELOAD vs. the RNG: Phidelius: Constructing Asymmetric Keypairs From Mere Passwords For Fun and PAKE https://dankaminsky.com/2012/01/03/phidelius/ Non-Persistent PGP Keys (2011) https://ritter.vg/blog-non_persistent_pgp.html -- Also related: https://github.com/jpf/lokey, "a tool for converting between cryptographic key formats". Unfortunately it needs maintenance.
In Dangerous toys: Anything to ed25519 (SSH Keys)
I wrote a tool to convert between all of the RSA key formats that I could find: http://github.com/jpf/lokey If you're still curious if the key material is different (I'm very curious), try the following and compare the results: pkcs15-tool --read-ssh-key 1 | lokey to jwk pkcs15-tool --read-ssh-key 1 --rfc4716 | lokey to jwk (You can also replace "jwk" with any of the other supported RSA types. It might be easier to compare the "ssh" type)
In Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue

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