How to Use SSH Handshakes to Stay Safe

When you first connect through SSH whether you're just directly shelling right or you're cloning a GitHub repo for example. After the connection you're establishingssh session which is this okay here's the clients here's my server parameter and then the server send you something called the host key. The host key is literally a public key that the server has and this doesn't change so it's up to you to trust that or not right? So yeah okay you can go to like get help and download that key and then literally just add it manually yourself to the client machine and this way you now know and trust that server no.

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