Github publishes public keys

#1

Post by x-sam » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

Re: Github publishes public keys

#2

Post by x-sam » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

I know, they are public, but I don't want to share information about a number of my keys, what exactly keys I do use to push my source code to github and other related things.

Re: Github publishes public keys

#3

Post by jrgifford » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 10:56 PM UTC

Well, aint this nice.

Re: Github publishes public keys

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Post by deanpcmad » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 11:02 PM UTC

Surely it doesn't matter though because no one will be able to access anything using those keys without the private keys anyway...

Re: Github publishes public keys

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Post by oh_sigh » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 11:23 PM UTC

x-sam wrote: post #2

I know, they are public, but I don't want to share information about a number of my keys, what exactly keys I do use to push my source code to github and other related things.

Why does it matter? Are your fears based on reason or just an uneasy feeling you have about publicizing data that you don't need to?

Re: Github publishes public keys

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Post by jlarocco » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 11:34 PM UTC

x-sam wrote: post #2

I know, they are public, but I don't want to share information about a number of my keys, what exactly keys I do use to push my source code to github and other related things.

I'm not sure what you mean. Pushing code to a repo requires your private key.

Re: Github publishes public keys

#7

Post by michaelmior » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 12:46 AM UTC

Sure, that's fine mine.

Re: Github publishes public keys

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Post by iamstef » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 1:45 AM UTC

awesome :D

Re: Github publishes public keys

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Post by beagle3 » Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 2:10 AM UTC

Isn't that required for validating signatures?