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blog.g3rt.nl
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blog.g3rt.nl is a personal blog at blog.g3rt.nl about security and systems. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Upgrade your SSH keys”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on upgrading SSH keys to Ed25519 instead of RSA, and on allowing a Chromecast through a host firewall. One commenter recommends the SSH key post directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Upgrade your SSH keys3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-09-23
What Hacker News says?
i can recommend this link: Upgrade your SSH keys! https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html?_utm_source=...
Comment linking /upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html?_utm_source=1-2-2
on “Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH keys?”Submitted Upgrade your SSH keys as a story · 444 points
HN discussionIf physically disconnecting it is easy enough then I'd agree that is preferable. Only plug it in when required. How about creating a firewall rule and then toggling that instead of physically disconnecting the Chromecast? I found a likely configuration: https://blog.g3rt.nl/allow-google-chromecast-host-firewall-i...
Comment linking /allow-google-chromecast-host-firewall-iptables.html
on “How to send local files to Chromecast with Python”Submitted Upgrade Your SSH Keys as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThanks, I am looking forward to ed25519 support as RSA and DSA are considered too weak [1], [2]. [1] https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html [2] https://latacora.micro.blog/the-default-openssh/
Comment linking /upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html
on “Secure ShellFish – SSH and SFTP Storage for iOS”Submitted Android device encryption user interface flaw as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe article uses RSA 2048 :-(. See https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html for why Ed25519 should be preferred, even over RSA 4096 (assuming it's supported, of course).
Comment linking /upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html
on “A little SSH file copy magic at the command line”