[Cryptography-dev] Validate SSH key

[Alex Gaynor]

Sure, then the parse function in cryptography should do what you want
-- it will either return a public key or raise an exception.

Alex

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 9:57 AM Seyed Mohammad Fakhraie
<fk.smoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Alex,
> Thanks for getting back. My bad. I meant SSH public keys. I want to
> make sure that the string which I'm receiving is a valid SSH public
> key.
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:13 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What does it mean to you to validate an SSH key?
> >
> > pyOpenSSL does not have any functions for interacting with
> > SSH-formatted keys. cryptography has a function for parsing them:
> > https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/serialization/#openssh-public-key
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 9:40 AM Seyed Mohammad Fakhraie
> > <fk.smoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > I'm receiving encoded SSH keys from the user which I need to validate.
> > > Does pyopenssl have a function for validating SSH keys?
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