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A comment on Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys? by chetanahuja on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:23AM (#12579417)
"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?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys? by cyberpunk on Monday September 26, 2016 @03:12AM (#12579876)
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?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys? by chetanahuja on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:44PM (#12583369)
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...

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