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Mar 30, 2023 21 min

GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?

from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser Hosted by Hussein Nasser

GitHub Accidentally Exposed their SSH RSA Private key, this is the message you will get . @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that a host key has just been changed. The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is SHA256:uNiVztksCsDhcc0u9e8BujQXVUpKZIDTMczCvj3tD2s. Please contact your system administrator. Add correct host key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message. Host key for github.com has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. In this video I discuss how bad is this,. 0:00 Intro 1:10 What happened? 3:00 SSH vs TLS Authentication 6:00 SSH Connect 7:45 How bad is the github leak? 15:00 What should you do? 18:50 Is ECDSA immune? https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/

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