GitHub ssh-rsa signature suspension starting November 4th: Troubleshooting steps for when SSH connections drop

The ssh-rsa signature method (a combination of RSA and SHA-1) and the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange ...

Deadlines on November 2nd, 4th, and 16th: A summary of GitHub specification changes and a checklist for verification

As we enter November, three GitHub specification changes will reach their deadlines. These are the retirement of the macOS 14 ...
LWN.net

ssh-rsa deprecation

Right, I should just have done the math or at least realised how small the log(N) term really was. 2 1014 is just as mind-bogglingly massive as 2 1024! Thanks for pointing it out. The size of the key ...
BleepingComputer

GitHub.com rotates its exposed private SSH key

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 ...
Dark Reading

GitHub's Private RSA SSH Key Mistakenly Exposed in Public Repository

GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary has replaced its SSH keys after someone inadvertently published its private RSA SSH host key part of the encryption scheme in an open GitHub repository. While some may ...
BleepingComputer

Researchers extract RSA keys from SSH server signing errors

A team of academic researchers from universities in California and Massachusetts demonstrated that it’s possible under certain conditions for passive network attackers to retrieve secret RSA keys from ...