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 ...

When you add a security key to SSH operations, you can use these devices to protect you and your account from accidental exposure, account hijacking, or malware, GitHub security engineer Kevin ...

GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys generated using a library that incorrectly created duplicate RSA keypairs.

GitHub was forced to change its RSA SSH key today, after the private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. That’s why users who connected today to GitHub.com via SSH got a ...

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.

Hanley, who is also GitHub's SVP of Engineering, said that they quickly contained the exposure and investigated the root cause of the issue. GitHub's RSA SSH Private Key Accidentally Leaked to Public!

To manage SSH keys without Keychain (because that's pretty easy) or to convince Keychain to act the way you want it to (that may or may not be)? My ~/.ssh/config looks like this: ...

Here's a very quick example of how to setup GitHub SSH keys and use them to perform Git clone, push and pull commands over a securely configured SSH connection.

Here's a quick example of how to securely connect Git to GitHub with SSH KeyGen produced secure shell keys on both Windows and Linux.