GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts. Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) found ...

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 ...

TL;DL: when I'm not using the ssh-add --use-apple-keychain command it seems like it cycles between every "default" key name possible but not the custom named one I have and when I use the command ...

Git SSH Key Locations. The ssh-keygen command will ask if you want to place the generated keys in a custom folder. Reject that option and accept the defaults. On both Linux and Windows, SSH keys must ...

Both GitHub and GitLab will give you the URL to use as a remote URL, depending on whether you picked HTTPS or SSH authentication – GitLab won’t give you SSH URLs until you upload a SSH key ...

To setup and configure GitLab SSH keys for secure Git fetch, pull, push and clone operations, follow these steps: Generate a GitLab SSH key pair on your personal computer. Copy the value of the public ...

Web traffic to GitHub.com and HTTPS Git operations are not affected.” Only GitHub.com’s RSA SSH key was replaced. No change is required for those who use ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital ...

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.

Much of what GitHub Desktop does can be done from the command line with a standard Git client. What’s important about GitHub Desktop is how it shows you what has changed in shared code, viewing ...