Creates an Ed25519 keypair, the modern default for SSH, and the -a 100 flag raises the key derivation function rounds from the default 16. More rounds make brute-forcing your passphrase far slower. The public key lands in ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub, ready for ssh-copy-id.
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