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At TABConf, one of the speakers said bitcoin keys are probably the most commonly used public key auth systems, and I wanted to shout "NO, it has to be SSH keys!"

I love SSH. I wish we used it more. I built https://gitern.com around this idea.

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this is brilliant

it's a pity that ssh doesnt support bitcoin ECC tho

maybe one day ...

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A gitern question for you, @k00b: Are repos shareable?

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Yep, you can make public repos

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"SSH pubkeys are typically stored in ~/.ssh with the .pub extension"

try typing .keys on the end of your github username

https://github.com/timbl.keys

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I had no idea that was a thing!

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Very cool. I didnt know you could retrieve pub keys from Github like that either.

You're probably right that ssh keys are more ubiquitous than Bitcoin keys today, but there may be a time when that flips. Personally I love all the sign/verify methods that are built-in to Bitcoin/Lightning implementations and see them as a great interface for building more trusted communications into new applications.

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I agree on both points!

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cant wait for git 2.34

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