Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com • Hacker News Board

Allocator2008 wrote: post #9

This is funny. Reminds me of the chap who wondered on an online forum about how to hack his school's server, and forthwith acted upon the advice from the forum to send a "ping of death" to the i.p. address "127.0.0.1"! :-) Could just be an urban legend, but still amusing!

http://www.bash.org/?742386

Re: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

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Post by ahizzle » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 6:17 AM UTC

The "best practice" bit is priceless.

Re: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

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Post by maskralc » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 6:58 AM UTC

Come on - if you are smart enough to know how to use ssh keys then you are too technically smart to fall for this. Grandma is not going to have her server hacked because she tried this. It's gotta be a joke.

Re: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

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Post by rms » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 7:25 AM UTC

This is a really funny parody of the idea that all you need for a Web 2.0 startup is a cloned Unix command.

Re: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

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Post by pierrefar » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 7:39 AM UTC

jmorin007 wrote: post #4

I just generated mine at Starbucks! Is that bad?

As long as you didn't spill coffee and damage your keys in transit, it's fine :)

Re: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

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Post by HansF » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 7:59 AM UTC

Heh "It is your responsibility to secure your new key pair in transit." it's not even https. Funny!

Re: Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

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Post by dfranke » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 9:14 AM UTC

jamess wrote: post #2

Oh dear god. I can only hope this is an attempt to crack idiots servers, rather than a serious service. I love the "it's your responsibility to secure your key in transit" disclaimer.

The "it's got what admins crave" line makes me pretty sure it's intended to be silly.