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Public SSH keys don't contain any user information at all. They could have some metadata for users to easily read, but that can be deleted without repercussions.
I'm no expert, and this is probably how it does NOT work, but if you have a private key, it can generate the public key, so that could be a way to tell the server "this is me", now try me.
Hey I wasn't so far off!