ssh-rsa public key validation using a regular expression.

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Published on 2010-03-22T17:41:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 18:11 UTC
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What regular expression can I use (if any) to validate that a given string is a legal ssh rsa public key?

I only need to validate the actual key - I don't care about the key type the precedes it or the username comment after it.

Ideally, someone will also provide the python code to run the regex validation.

Thanks.

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