[Cryptography-dev] Validate SSH key

[Seyed Mohammad Fakhraie]

Thanks a lot Alex.
Best, Seyed

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:32 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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