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It is easy to create and configure new SSH keys. In the default configuration, OpenSSH allows any user to configure new keys. The keys are permanent access credentials that remain valid even after the user's account has been deleted. In organizations with more than a few dozen users, SSH keys easily accumulate on servers and service accounts over the years.

We have seen enterprises with several million keys granting access to their production servers. It only takes one leaked, stolen, or misconfigured key to gain access. In any larger organization, use of SSH key management solutions is almost necessary.

SSH keys should also be moved to root-owned locations with proper provisioning and termination processes. For more information, see how to manage SSH keys.

Practically all cybersecurity regulatory frameworks require managing who can access what. SSH keys grant access, and fall under this requirement. This, organizations under compliance mandates are required to implement proper management processes for the keys.

It is important to ensure there is enough unpredictable entropy in the system when SSH keys are generated. There have been incidents when thousands of devices on the Internet have shared the same host key when they were improperly configured to generate the key without proper randomness. On general purpose computers, randomness for SSH key generation is usually not a problem. It may be something of an issue when initially installing the SSH server and generating host keys, and only people building new Linux distributions or SSH installation packages generally need to worry about it.

Our recommendation is to collect randomness during the whole installation of the operating system, save that randomness in a random seed file.

Then boot the system, collect some more randomness during the boot, mix in the saved randomness from the seed file, and only then generate the host keys. This maximizes the use of the available randomness. And make sure the random seed file is periodically updated, in particular make sure that it is updated after generating the SSH host keys. Many modern general-purpose CPUs also have hardware random number generators.

This helps a lot with this problem. The best practice is to collect some entropy in other ways, still keep it in a random seed file, and mix in some entropy from the hardware random number generator.

This way, even if one of them is compromised somehow, the other source of randomness should keep the keys secure. Available entropy can be a real problem on small IoT devices that don't have much other activity on the system. They may just not have the mechanical randomness from disk drive mechanical movement timings, user-caused interrupts, or network traffic. Furthermore, embedded devices often run on low-end processors that may not have a hardware random number generator.

Our recommendation is that such devices should have a hardware random number generator. If the CPU does not have one, it should be built onto the motherboard.

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