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Well that's fair enough, but I take issue more with the title of the post telling me I do "ssh wrong", because I can't be bothered to setup a CA and fuck around with certificates.

To me, setting up a CA is more effort than I would like.




It becomes feasible when you have a larger number of key pairs that are supposed to have access to the same set of machines. I did it as a private person because I'm an SSH nomad, using several clients with different key pairs each.

I agree with you, for a regular user with a single client device (or two) its not worth it.


It's very much a use-case and risk driven decision. A company should be using Teleport, which is a lot more than just certificates (but they do use certs). For your personal VPS or GitHub account, nobody is going to go out of their way to get your SSH keys.

The biggest "you're doing it wrong" I see is people who disable host key verification because their servers' IPs change constantly. Do you want MITM?! Because this is how you get MITM! Might as well use Telnet for connections.




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