Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are
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Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are
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#2Would be interesting to see what can also be done with Keybase API.
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#3Neat. I wonder how many "attackers" that scan ssh etc. could be identified by this.
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#4Good thing I use HTTP to push to Github (or not?)
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#5"don't worry, I don't have any OpenSSH 0day" > That's exactly what someone with a 0 day would say!
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#7> Did you know that ssh sends all your public keys to any server
it tries to authenticate to? You can see yours echoed below.
> We tried to use that to find your GitHub username, but we couldn't :( maybe you don't even have GitHub ssh keys, do you?
> By the way, did you know that GitHub publishes all users' ssh public keys and Ben (benjojo.co.uk) grabbed them all?
> That's pretty handy at times :) But not this time :(
Better luck next time, I guess :)
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#8Forgive me ignorance here but what steps should I take to avoid someone from getting my public key off github and then using it to screw with my repos? Was there a major step I missed here when I made these keys?
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#9The connection gets closed immediately for me, what is it supposed to do?
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#10Forgive me ignorance here but what steps should I take to avoid someone from getting my public key off github and then using it to screw with my repos? Was there a major step I missed here when I made these keys?
It's a public key for a reason. You need to the private key to authenticate, so you're safe having everyone know your public key.