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Yes, you can. No, you generally shouldn’t. And boy, do I hate this question 🙂 When the Secure Shell daemon is started, it processes its configuration file and generates a cryptographic key. This can take several seconds, especially on a slow or busy server, and the startup time can be unacceptably long.
