
GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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How to Force the Verification to Fail if the Host Key Has Changed
Every time i connect to a new a different host i get this message. It's like hey something changed either someone is man in the middle in you right and because that's the normal path Right if if if if someone didn't if the private key didn't leak they will never have the private key to begin with so they will have to use a different public key. The moment they use different public key for the same host they will get this error. But by the way it might be just that the host key has actually changed right and here the good thing about this message and i don't know how to how this happens how to force the verification to fail but probably there is an option
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