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Chris Boot
Personal blog · bootc.netsystemsprogramming
Chris Boot writes Chris's Digital Realm, a personal blog at bootc.net about systems and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its guide to a GnuPG and ssh-agent setup with a YubiKey smartcard. Commenters point to it as a working setup they use or as a fix for gnome-keyring conflicts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ssh-agent-setup/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-22
What Hacker News says?
I use this: http://www.bootc.net/archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ss... Coupled with a standard yubikey+gpg agent setup Maybe look at my dotfiles if you are stuck: - https://github.com/aviau/dotfiles
Comment linking /archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ssh-agent-setup/
on “Ask HN: Alternatives to Yubikey?”The hardest part about getting the Yubikey to work, at least under Ubuntu, is dealing with the marriage to gnome-keyring. Uninstalling it and the associated autostart gpg-agent files (see http://www.bootc.net/archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ss... ) seems to do the trick. The documentation for doing this is _horrendous_
Comment linking /archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ssh-agent-setup/
on “An NFC PGP SmartCard for Android”This article is good as far as UX goes. Myself, I love my Yubikey. I use it to store my ssh keys, then tunnel them using ssh-agent/gpg-agent, something along the lines of this article. https://www.bootc.net/archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-s... and this article https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding . It's set up so that you have to have the key to get into the bastion host first, then you have to tunnel your ke…
Comment linking /archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ssh-agent-setup/
on “Why Johnny Doesn’t Use Two Factor – A Study of the FIDO U2F Security Key [pdf]”