Reuse of private RSA hostKey, but warnings still shows up

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The following command...

sftp -P 2222 [email protected]

Can lead to the following warning...

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@    WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED!     @
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The RSA host key for [[hub.jupytearth.org](http://hub.jupytearth.org/)]:2222 has changed,
and the key for the corresponding IP address [54.190.190.96]:2222
is unknown. This could either mean that
DNS SPOOFING is happening or the IP address for the host
and its host key have changed at the same time.
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@  WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!   @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is

This happens even if we reuse a RSA key via #44.

Why?

Could it be that a public key is re-created from the fixed private key, and that public key is changed slightly via a timestamp or similar, and that causes this warning?

It seems that the provided hostKey helm chart configuration is only consumed here, as a path to the private RSA key provided.

jupyterhub-ssh/jupyterhub_ssh/__init__.py

Lines 314 to 321 in 923e230

	async def start_server(self):
	await asyncssh.listen(
	host="",
	port=self.port,
	server_factory=partial(NotebookSSHServer, self),
	line_editor=False,
	password_auth=True,
	server_host_keys=[self.host_key_path],

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Related

• asynssh project's documentation about specifying private keys and public keys

Questions

• Is my guess reasonable that the public key seems different, and that is whats warned about?
• What makes the public key look different when generated from the private key provided?
• Can we make the generated public key be the same or pre-generate it in a consistent way?