43 pointsby modinfo2 days ago4 comments

pseudohadamard2 days ago
It's an artefact of OpenSSH braindamage, like a WiFi device spraying probe requests OpenSSH sprays all of your keys to any server it connects to and then takes whatever the server responds with as the one to auth. There's a CVE for this, CVE-2016-20012, but the OpenSSH maintainers rejected it as by-design, https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/270.
- FiloSottilea day ago
  If that PR were merged, whoami.filippo.io would still work the same. It would just receive signed requests instead of queries.
gnabgib2 days ago
Popular in 2023 (240 points, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34301768
seg_lol2 days ago
It has downloaded every public key from github?
I would use this trick to add them to my test clusters.
fragmedea day ago
Yes, but telling people to run
```
    ssh -o IdentityAgent=/dev/null -v  -o IdentityFile=/dev/null funky.nondeterministic.computer
```
instead of just
```
     ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer
```
is harder to sell.
- locke3891a day ago
  For those that care about privacy, couldn't you just use an alias? alias ssh='ssh -o IdentityAgent=/dev/null -o IdentityFile=/dev/null -v' then you can do ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer and get the same functionality.