Suggestion: Deprecate SSH certificates and move to X.509 certificates

Konrad Bucheli kb at open.ch
Mon May 28 19:42:16 AEST 2018


Here you have a second person. We heavily depend on them and they are 
way easier to manage than X.509 certificates.

On 25.05.2018 06:26, Yegor Ievlev wrote:
> That's not a very good source, since it's only available to one person.
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:12 AM, Peter Moody <mindrot at hda3.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:09 PM, Yegor Ievlev <koops1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How can I revoke one SSH certificate without having to replace the
>>> root certificate and all certificates signed by it?
>>
>> there is no chaining of ssh certificates.
>>
>>> Regarding the second statement, do you have sources?
>>
>> yes. my day job.
>>
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Peter Moody <mindrot at hda3.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Yegor Ievlev <koops1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> SSH certificates provide no
>>>>> way to revoke compromised certificates,
>>>>
>>>> this isn't true
>>>>
>>>>> and SSH certificates haven't seen significant adoption,
>>>>
>>>> this also isn't true.
>>>>
>>>> enterprises love ssh certificates.
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