An audit of the SSH keys on GitHub found that some are weak enough to be factored and many others are vulnerable to the Debian OpenSSL bug from 2008.

Do not change the email address. It must be: git@github.com To test the GitHub SSH connection for the Permission denied error, use the -T switch. If SSH is set up correctly, the output includes a ...

GitHub Actions users may see failed workflow runs if they are using actions/checkout with the ssh-key option, notes the blog. GitHub is updating the actions/checkout action in all supported tags ...

GitHub, too, wants to move away from typical passwords and to more secure authentication standards. At present, users can now use a password, personal access token (PAT), or an SSH key to access ...

In GitHub, users enable SSH in two parts. First, create GitHub SSH keys that uniquely identify their account. Then, register the public half of the private key pair in the user’s GitHub account. Once ...

Earlier this year, researcher Ben Cox collected the public SSH (Secure Shell) keys of users with access to GitHub-hosted repositories by using one of the platform’s features.

If one has an SSH key registered with the account, one can use SSH authentication to recover the account in cases where all of the other authentication methods have become unavailable.

However, the RSA SSH host key exposure can still affect developers since it can cause connection errors and send warning messages. Thankfully, GitHub was able to fix the problem on Mar. 24.

Separately, the UK developer said he found nine GitHub SSH keys that contained woefully insufficient numbers of bits. Two of them had only 256 bits, making it possible for him to factor them and ...

Out of the box, secure shell is fairly secure. With the help of ssh key authentication, you can lock down secure shell so that only specific machines can log in. Here's how.