“You may choose to protect it with a passphrase, or you may not.
There are two schools of thought on this. One is that a
passphrase-less private key is plenty secure, because you are a
very careful person who does not lose her keys.”
Armor SSH and Block Brute Force Attacks
By
Carla Schroder
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