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DSA Private Key

Description#

General#

  • Documentation: RFC 6976
  • Summary: The Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) can be used to authenticate to services. It works with a public and private key set. The client uses the private key to authenticate to the service that has the public key. Only the private key is sensitive. The public key is not sensitive and can be distributed freely. See the RFC 6976 for more information. More details about cryptographic keys can be found in this FAQ.

Revoke the secret#

Revoking the key depends on the service being used.

Check for suspicious activity#

Checking for suspicious activity depends on the service being used.

Details for Private key dsa#

  • Family: PrivateKey

  • Category: Private key

  • High recall: True

  • Validity check available: False

  • Minimum number of matches: 1

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 2.03

  • Prefixed: True

  • PreValidators:

- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - '-----begin dsa private key-----'

Examples#

- text: >    -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----    MIIBvAIBAAKBgQDaqdgwD3YvYwgbWzs8RQQOm8RmPztSYMUrcM7KQtdJ111sTZ/x    VAq84frCt/TEupAN5hUFkC+bpJ/diZixQgPvLKo6FVtBKy97HSpuZT8n2pUYZ9/4    sBTR5YQtP9qExXUYO/yR+fZ+RE9w0TbSAtHW2YZHKnoowJAHdoEGMbaChQIVAK/q    iXNHCha4xHnIdD2jT0OUs03fAoGBAMnCeTgO09r2GquRAQmGFAT/6IGMhux7KOC8    QrW7jDaqAYLiuA45E3Ira584RF2rg0VhewxcdEMbqNzqCeSKk9OAmwXpJ1J8vCUR    dRojGz0DYZHJbcspoGtZF1IF6Z3BoaggRcLX6/KYLbnzFZnBXV/+//gRTbm/V2ie    BzCWE/qEAoGBANbrGxzVTTdTD8MaVtlOpjU3RqoGFHmFCd4lv0PIt2mjFsXO3Dt/    6BMtJVREtb74WF0SUGmnpy6FTYoDb05j2LhH1IvCSkFT5hUK0WtAJ3NidJ6ARxxD    z2QITWI1FTr1K9NbZdR6DoTxeKfV6wWbuLywlwoWYmLe6oAmq21Oft4XAhRcKcLk    r2R/Rn1uchUL8ru0B2OVkg==    -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Details for Base64 private key dsa#

  • Family: PrivateKey

  • Category: Private key

  • High recall: True

  • Validity check available: False

  • Minimum number of matches: 1

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 0.01

  • Prefixed: True

  • PreValidators:

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Examples#

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

Here's the decoded string:

-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----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-----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----