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@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ My dotfiles - including my vim, terminal and font config.
 My current setup consists of multiple machines running NixOS.
 This is using flakes for reproducibility and home manager for setting up user-specific things.
 
+
+## generating ssh keys
+```
+ssh-keygen -t ed25519
+```
+
 Workstations are set up by running ` sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake '.#'` and servers are by `nixos-rebuild switch --flake '.#servername' --target-host root@hostname`.
 I don't use home manager the program, everything is referenced from the top flake.