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PSA to anyone making a public SSH service: List the fingerprint, not the host key, thanks. (Or better yet list both!)
by Repulsion9513 2y ago
PSA to anyone making a public SSH service: List the fingerprint, not the host key, thanks. (Or better yet list both!)
- robocat 2y agoPlease avoid acronyms on HN or spell them out. We don't all live in your context. duckduckgo just says PSA is Prostate specific antigen. What did you mean?
- snapcaster 2y agopublic service announcement, chatgpt would have got it for you
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- eddd-ddde 2y agoIIRC Public service announcement.
- _lvbh 2y agoPublic service announcement. It’s very widely used
- efreak 2y agoI would blame this one on DDG, actually. PSA is an incredibly common acronym for public service announcement. Wherever DDG sources acronyms for might also be assuming people just know it. Try wiktionary or Wikipedia disambiguation pages for acronyms when they don't show up in search, I can often find them there.
- Repulsion9513 2y agoSorry, I meant Secure SHell. Oh wait, that wasn't the widely-known acronym you asked about.
- drekipus 2y agoWhat's HN?
- SoftTalker 2y agoSorry to see this downvoted, I think it's a common courtesy to spell out acronyms on first use, no matter how widely understood one believes them to be.
- lambdaxyzw 2y agoI think that's because most people consider this requires unjustified. Do you think similarly about expanding acronyms like SSH, CLI, HTTP, HN, FYI, USD, US, EU, PKI? Why/why not?
- raggi 2y agoor better yet, don't use ssh for this purpose, it's not good for it. letsencrypt is free, you might hate the browser for many fair reasons, but PKI and the CA/B forum are actually effective.