GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?)

19 points by xGLaDER 4 hours ago | 7 comments

danlitt 4 hours ago |
Interesting fact, but the slop filler is distracting.
gwerbin 4 hours ago |
I bet the author discovered the problem during an AI coding session. The "mathematically sound" comment sounds like the AI did some deep dive into a possible corrupted private key before checking for a missing public key. Maybe it's a claw-type system that automatically publishes a blog post when something interesting happens. Either way I flagged it.
elashri 3 hours ago |
To be honest, the "mathematically sound" is a widely used jargon used in many academic fields (physics, mathematics from first hand experience). It is also more meaningful than people who would use "nice function" to mean a function that follow some criteria in their head (and you would need to guess what these will be).
yladiz 3 hours ago |
This isn't about an academic issue though, and who would actually state their RSA key is mathematically sound except in the case that they're performing some research in the field? The point the parent was making was that it was obviously written by AI.
PunchyHamster 4 hours ago |
Wish they'd fix what's broken, not fuck with stuff that works.
bluehatbrit 4 hours ago |
GitHub is big. They'll be doing lots of things all at once. This is probably just a case of some normal component replacement for some maintenance reason. I'm as frustrated as anyone about the lack of stability and the hard pivot to AI, but this at least shows they're doing work on this area of the application.
For all we know this could be a knock on impact from an upgrade or component replacement for improved stability. Maybe even critical security fixes. I don't think it's fair to lambast them for doing work around the core git/ssh systems.
ghusto 2 hours ago |
> They'll be doing lots of things all at once
Make all of those things be related to "make the platform stable".