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@progvp
Last active March 2, 2021 17:43
Calculate AWS key fingerprint

Calculate AWS fingerprint from SSH private key
Note that fingerprint you can see on AWS Key pairs tab in AWS console is not the same as fingerprint that ssh-keygen gives.

If key was uploaded:

ssh-keygen -f <myprivatekey> -e -m PKCS8 | openssl pkey -pubin -outform DER |openssl md5 -c

If key was generated by AWS:

openssl pkcs8 -in <myprivatekey> -nocrypt -topk8 -outform DER | openssl sha1 -c
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