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I wonder if you string together enough words can it be a valid key?
It's assymetric crypto. You'd need to find a matching public key. I suppose that's impossible, or what we call that... Like take a few billion years of compute. But I'm not an expert on RSA.
Public keys are derived from the private key. The asymmetric part is for communication not generation. Afaik
I'm pretty sure the cryptographic parameters to generate that public key are included in the private key file. So while you can generate the other file from that, you can't really change the characters in the private key file.
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Reddit did it in reverse for Tor