[HN Gopher] ssh whoami.filippo.io
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       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.
        
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