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Find MD5 Fingerprint of public key

In OpenSSH version 6.8, the default format for fingerprints was changed from MD5 to SHA256. Meanwhile, GitHub's SSH Keys page still lists the fingerprints as a MD5 hash.

The following outputs the fingerprint as a MD5 hash to allow for easy comparison to GitHub's fingerprint.

ssh-keygen -l -f /path/to/key.pub -E md5
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