My ssh keys are oldMany times I had the Idea to replace them and cleanup. Put the approach feels old not intuitive and i’m affraid of problems.

How do you manage keys and get sure they do ot get to old.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Like the other commenter said, they’re expiring regularly. Host keys expire ~monthly and there’s a cronjob to reach out to the certificate authority server to renew them. User certs expire ~daily and the first time I ssh on any given day I have to authenticate with the CA. Recently tied it to PocketID for SSO.

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      8 hours ago

      Sooo, CA unreachable means connection dead, which is a manageable risk. But giving a third party the authority over my SSH access sounds like a great way to make it convenient for state actors to invade my privacy.

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        7 hours ago

        I mean, the CA is also self hosted so I’m not sure what you think the extra attack vector is here.