I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
Try using a Russian Cyrillic е or к or у Sure no one will be able to install the app from the CLI (unless there is a bug in npm’s parsing logic) but you should be fine distributing hyperlinks to skim-readers ;)
NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
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Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#42I thought buttbuttination taught everyone how incredibly stupid this is 25-30 years or so ago already? But no. Just a few years ago I tried to enter an answer into a Hungarian Q&A site recommending to take the Algeciras-Tangier ferry and the answer was refused. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geci
The Scunthorpe problem all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#43Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#44I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
Have you had any publishing issues? My last successful publish on this package was 3 months ago, and I started noticing issues with deploys a few weeks back. Three fun days of CI/CD pipeline debugging to get to this..
Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#45Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#46I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
Time to change the name of your business to kexgen I guess.
Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#47I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
unrelated to your question: Your website's very pretty, but doesn't scroll horizontally on mobile. It also looks like there might be a bug in the code sample - where does "fingerprint" come from?
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#48Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#49I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#50I must be missing something obvious. What's malicious about the word "keygen"? What's the issue with ssh-keygen? gpg --gen-key?