vanityssh-go

vanityssh allows you to generate millions of ED25519 private keys in the OpenSSH private key format and run a regex search against the resulting public keys. You can use this to find patterns in ssh public keys that you like.

Is it safe to use?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is literally my first golang app and I have no idea if I am generating the keys in a safe way, so trust that however you want.

Is it malware?

If you set streaming or a sufficiently hard(or impossible) pattern, you will use 100% CPU on all available threads until you manually exit the app.

Usage

Using vanityssh with no switches results in it returning the first generated ssh key and write it to id_ed25519 and id_ed25519.pub in the current directory.

Usage of ./vanityssh:
  -insensitive
        case-insensitive
  -regex string
        regex pattern goes here
  -streaming
        Keep processing keys, even after a match

Examples

Regex search, return the first key that matches any of the following consitions:

1. Case-insensitive "vanity" at the end of the public key
2. Case-insensitive "1234" at the end of the public key
3. Case-sensitive "yay" at the end of the public key

$ ./vanityssh --regex '(?i)vanity$|1234$|(?-i)yay$'
global_user_input = (?i)vanity$|1234$|(?-i)yay$
Regex Pattern =  (?i)vanity$|1234$|(?-i)yay$
Press Ctrl+C to end
SSH Keys Processed = 838634
Total execution time 13.507595831s
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtz
c2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACDNDeibTmOGsps2uMnGnATFIA220rGlvaAaTnUoMnsmsgAA
AIj5TWM/+U1jPwAAAAtzc2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACDNDeibTmOGsps2uMnGnATFIA22
0rGlvaAaTnUoMnsmsgAAAEA5u4xE+2JgExgvE0auyx9c4uHLwDca5c5t4Jw3cqNj
GM0N6JtOY4aymza4aaaaBMUgDbbSsaW9oBpOdSgyeyayAAAAAAECAwQF
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIM0N6JtOY4aymza4aaaaBMUgDbbSsaW9oBpOdSgyeyay

Find a public key with the word foobar (case-insensitive) anywhere in it, and keep finding keys forever:

$ ./vanityssh --streaming --insensitive --regex foobar
global_user_input = foobar
Regex Pattern =  (?i)foobar
Press Ctrl+C to end
SSH Keys Processed = 19836091
Total execution time 5m3.547881075s
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtz
c2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACC5wtZF8fC9UVuUaENRuND8336Dm2kcgCz6aXdrAr3m7AAA
AIijajSyo2o0sgAAAAtzc2gtAAAyNTUxOQAAACC5wtZF8fC9UVuUaENRuND8336D
m2kcgCz6aXdrAr3m7AAAAEBR5YgwA+F6mbfskfPDAzyjlCpXZdI2Df7YsMw2gDZQ
a7nC1kXx8L1RW5RoQ1G4aaaafoObaRyALPppd2sCvebsAAAAAAECAwQF
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAILnC1kXx8L1RW5RoQ1G4aaaafoObaRyALPppd2sCvebs
SSH Keys Processed = 27980128
Total execution time 7m8.214108871s
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtz
c2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACDmt8vcX6DgWkUak4D67PaVlASojh8PxGKvZX9Q0qL6IAAA
AIgO97dqDve3agAAAAtzc2gtZWQyNTAAAAAAACDmt8vcX6DgWkUak4D67PaVlASo
jh8PxGKvZX9Q0qL6IAAAAEAVNWLWKspejduNdkMkipu/JgJVKTcgIYIazKCSWtUs
t+aaaaafoOBaRRqTgPrs9pWUBKiOHw/EYq9lf1DSovogAAAAAAECAwQF
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOaaaafoOBaRRqTgPrs9pWUBKiOHw/EYq9lf1DSovog