# Private key material in source

A private key block in the submitted text. The scanner matches an RSA, EC, OpenSSH, DSA, or generic private key header.

Area: Security

## What you need to supply

The text you paste or send. The check does not read a secret store.

## If it reports a finding

Critical severity. The suggested next step is to revoke the key and load a replacement from a secret store.

## What this does not prove

A public certificate, and the words private key in a comment, are not this finding. The check does not return the key material.

## Header that this check is written to notice

```
An RSA, EC, OpenSSH, DSA, or generic private key header
```

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