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An SSH key is a cryptographic key pair used to authenticate when logging in to a server over SSH: the private key stays on your machine, the public key goes on the server, and no password travels over the line.

Your password goes over the cable. Every switch, every device on the route can read it. SSH keys solve that with cryptography, but the step from password

You type `scp backup.tar.gz user@server:/srv/backups/` and a minute later the file is there. No flags, no config, no ceremony. That is the whole appeal, and it