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A ssh server that knows who you are. $ ssh whoami.filippo.io

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It's an artefact of OpenSSH braindamage, like a WiFi device spraying probe requests OpenSSH sprays all of your keys to any server it connects to and then takes whatever the server responds with as the one to auth. There's a CVE for this, CVE-2016-20012, but the OpenSSH maintainers rejected it as by-design, https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/270.

If that PR were merged, whoami.filippo.io would still work the same. It would just receive signed requests instead of queries.

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Yes, but telling people to run

    ssh -o IdentityAgent=/dev/null -v  -o IdentityFile=/dev/null funky.nondeterministic.computer

instead of just

     ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer

is harder to sell.

For those that care about privacy, couldn't you just use an alias? alias ssh='ssh -o IdentityAgent=/dev/null -o IdentityFile=/dev/null -v' then you can do ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer and get the same functionality.

Just add it to your .ssh/config file

It has downloaded every public key from github?

I would use this trick to add them to my test clusters.

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