Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
by chetanahuja on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:23AM
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"unknown third-party and simply trusting them is absolutely fucking absurd"
So how do you feel about TLS and the 100's of trusted certificates embedded in your browser/mobile device?
Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
by cyberpunk on Monday September 26, 2016 @03:12AM
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Are you really asking the difference between the CA bundle and some node+redis+python startup being able to drop authorized_keys across your datacenter?
... eh?
Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
by chetanahuja on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:44PM
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The original conmment was about "unknown third parties". I'm not advocating handing over your ssh keys to anyone but if you did, at least this would be a third party you consciously chose to trust. The crap load of CA's you implicitly trust on the other hand... Do you even know the names of 10 out of about 200 of them embedded in your browser?
EDIT: Case in point.. did you know the name WoSign before they became notorious? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBG...
I certainly wasn't trying to shit on you (or your company/employer) personally... but to me the idea of turning over ultimate control of all my servers, data, etc., to some unknown third-party and simply trusting them is absolutely fucking absurd.
I pretty much agree with everything cyberpunk said in this thread. I've been around long enough that it shouldn't but some of the things people do with regard to security sometimes surprises me and just leaves me standing there with my mouth hanging open, saying "WTF?".