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So... don't trust long lived ssh keys, but trust Cloudflare's CA. Why? What has Cloudflare done to earn trust? If that alone weren't reason enough to dismiss t
by johnklos 2y ago
So... don't trust long lived ssh keys, but trust Cloudflare's CA. Why? What has Cloudflare done to earn trust?
If that alone weren't reason enough to dismiss this, the article has marketing BS throughout. For instance, "SSH access to a server often comes with elevated privileges". Ummm... Every authentication system ever has whatever privileges that come with that authentication system. This is the kind of bull you say / write when you want to snow someone who doesn't know any better. To those of us who do understand this, this is almost AI level bullshit.
The same is true of their supposed selling points:
> Author fine-grained policy to govern who can SSH to your servers and through which SSH user(s) they can log in as.
That's exactly what ssh does. You set up precisely which authentication methods you accept, you set up keys for exactly that purpose, and you set up individual accounts. Do Cloudflare really think we're setting up a single user account and giving access to lots of different people, and we need them to save us? (now that I think about it, I bet some people do this, but this is still a ridiculous selling point)
> Monitor infrastructure access with Access and SSH command logs
So they're MITM all of our connections? We're supposed to trust them, even though they have a long history of not only working with scammers and malicious actors, but protecting them?
I suppose there's a sucker born every minute, so Cloudflare will undoubtedly sell some people on this silliness, but to me it just looks like yet another way that Cloudflare wants to recentralize the Internet around them. If they had their way, then in a few years, were they to go down, a majority of the Internet would literally stop working. That should scare everyone.
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