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		lawpoop on Sept 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are the best practises for using SSH ... If I understand this properly, how do you use the same identity from two different machines on a service like github? If they only allow you to upload one public key per account, then you aren't able to use that account on both your desktop and laptop, if you have separate private keys on them, no? Edit: Actually I just looked at github and they allow multiple keys. Is it generally the case that any service that offers ssh keys will allow multiple keys?

regularfry on Sept 28, 2016 [–]

There's no reason not to. The `authorized_keys` file on a host does exactly that. Whether a specific service does the same is down to that service.

lawpoop on Sept 29, 2016 | [–]

How do you revoke the keys when a machine a compromised? Log in to each service and remove it when you become aware?

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