[HN Gopher] ssh whoami.filippo.io ___________________________________________________________________ ssh whoami.filippo.io Author : exists Score : 27 points Date : 2023-01-08 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (words.filippo.io) (TXT) w3m dump (words.filippo.io) | Normille wrote: | I don't know whether this is clever or not. But it ID'd me from | my Github account public keys. | woodruffw wrote: | I think it's pretty clever, and demonstrates something very | powerful about GitHub's position as de facto global code | repository: you can get a strong cryptographic identity for | (almost) anyone on the service, which you can then sign/encrypt | to, verify for, etc. | | age (another tool of Filippo's) leverages this to make | encrypting to any GitHub user easy[1]. | | [1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age#encrypting-to-a-github- | us... | tcard wrote: | > you can get a strong cryptographic identity for (almost) | anyone on the service, which you can then sign/encrypt to, | verify for, etc. | | I made https://sshign.tcardenas.me/ to take advantage of | this. For example: [1] | | In the end, it isn't that useful. I only routinely sign | digitally to deal with the (Spanish) government, and they | provide their own certificates and software to do that. | | [1] https://sshign.tcardenas.me/?signer=github.com%2Ftcard&me | ssa... | kristopolous wrote: | cool so apparently I don't manage my keys stupidly because it | didn't work from any machine. I'm ok with that. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-08 23:00 UTC)