GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...

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 ...

Some users incorrectly use their GitHub account email, or substitute their username where the first git is. That’s incorrect. Do not change the email address. It must be: [email protected] To test the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Further, the company added that only GitHub.com’s RSA SSH key was replaced, while no change is required for ECDSA or Ed25519 users. The replacement of the GitHub RSA SSH host key comes a couple of ...

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.

However, if I try to use any git commands, it does not attempt any keys from ssh-agent. I changed ~cmder\vendor\git-for-windows\etc\gitconfig so that sshCommand = ssh -v -A, to see verbose output.

Even if one just uses git repositories from the command line and doesn’t bother with a password manager, switching to SSH means less typing.

Earlier this year, researcher Ben Cox collected the public SSH (Secure Shell) keys of users with access to GitHub-hosted repositories by using one of the platform’s features.