Post B6UDMsv0ftFM37ev9U by maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
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(DIR) Post #B6UBLPJ75Dms0v6JaS by eloy@hsnl.social
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I generally appreciate OpenSSH but generating the default ssh key in the file without extension and the public key as .pub was a horrible UX choice
(DIR) Post #B6UDMsv0ftFM37ev9U by maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
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@eloy Doesn't this predate OpenSSH? Or am I misremembering from very long ago?
(DIR) Post #B6UDMtErU57t2gwm5w by shiz@mastodon.social
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@maswan @eloy yeah it's a carry-over from SSH-1, although it used to be ~/.ssh/identity(.pub) pre-DSA: https://github.com/daztucker/historic-ssh/blob/df015a81e632a4705c9040be0e33810ae7a54a6c/ssh-keygen.c#L790still, they could have changed it for new algorithms (e.g. ed25519)
(DIR) Post #B6UDMtZmEJrA5YjThA by domi@donotsta.re
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@shiz @maswan @eloy reading through the readme on that repo got me wishing that we still used ‘trojan horse’ as a name for a vulnerability class. not to mention all the other cool names that we forewent for nondescriptive jargon
(DIR) Post #B6UF9tfOmVW8VuI8v2 by eloy@hsnl.social
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@domi @maswan @shiz remote access trojan is still a common term, but usually abbreviated