Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
When it asks you for a passphrase, hit <Enter> twice - you have a null passphrase (which is fractionally less secure but that's probably OK.)
Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the machine containing the private key is compromised so, potentially, is every machine that the public key has been distributed too.
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