Is this the private key? What's the difference between fingerprint

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2017-03-12 04:50:10 Post No. 59359906
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Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:50:10 Post No. 59359906 [Report]

Is this the private key? What's the difference between fingerprint and private key?

I had created an SSH key and then fully restarted my computer. I tried to take this SSH "fingerprint" (pic related but it was a different one that was in use) and add it to my ssh-agent on my computer like so:

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/[here's where key went]

It's obviously I was doing something tremendously wrong, but I can't figure out what. If I am trying to add a github SSH key to my ssh-agent, how do I do it?

Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:54:38 Post No.59359961
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Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:54:38 Post No.59359961 [Report]

>>59359906
I needed to have kept my id_rsa file from my previous computer, didn't I?

Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:55:34 Post No.59359974
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Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:55:34 Post No.59359974 [Report]

>>59359906
its not your private key. its a hash of your public key i think and is not a secret

Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:56:45 Post No.59359995
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Anonymous 2017-03-12 04:56:45 Post No.59359995 [Report]

>>59359974
thanks

Anonymous 2017-03-12 05:57:47 Post No.59360646
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Anonymous 2017-03-12 05:57:47 Post No.59360646 [Report]

Fingerprint is used to verify that the key you gave out is the same as the one you have.