The exposed RSA key in question does not grant access to GitHub's infrastructure or customer data, Hanley has clarified. "This change only impacts Git operations over SSH using RSA.

The public SSH keys that users associate with their GitHub account are visible to other users, a feature that enables users to share those keys with others. Last December researcher Ben Cox ...

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.

GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts. Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) found ...

SSH: OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.4.3 Cmder, etc.: up to date I have loaded a couple keys into ssh-agent, and running ssh-add -l returns the expected result, listing the loaded keys.

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 ...

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.

Cox determined that 93.9 percent of the RSA-based public SSH keys he found on GitHub had 2048 bits, and around four percent had 1024 bits. He found 2 keys that had only 256 bits and 7 that had 512 ...

Assume your GitHub account is hacked, users with weak crypto keys told SSH keys give access to projects belonging to Spotify, Yandex, and UK gov. Dan Goodin – Jun 2, 2015 3:35 PM | 27 Credit: GitHub ...