sharkey vs authorized_keys

sharkey

Sharkey is a service for managing certificates for use by OpenSSH (by square)

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authorized_keys

Scripts to manage many-to-many SSH access (by mmdriley)

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sharkey		authorized_keys
	Project
2	Mentions	1
391	Stars	1
0.0%	Growth	-
5.4	Activity	0.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Go	Language	Shell
Apache License 2.0	License	-

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sharkey

Posts with mentions or reviews of sharkey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-23.

Cryptojacking Attacks Continue To Target SSH Servers
5 projects | /r/netsec | 23 Jul 2021
How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2021

> Still, I'd really like to see an article about how you set that up, especially if it targets smaller enterprise customers.
https://github.com/square/sharkey

authorized_keys

Posts with mentions or reviews of authorized_keys. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-25.

How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2021

Definitely not appropriate for protecting Real Infrastructure, but for my handful of personal machines I put my authorized keys in a Google Doc and configure hosts to download it using `AuthorizedKeysCommand`.
I have a hardware-backed "doomsday key" to use if the Google Doc stops working.
Writeup and script at https://github.com/mmdriley/authorized_keys

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sharkey and authorized_keys you can also consider the following projects:

caddy-ssh - Caddy-SSH is a general-purpose, extensible, modular, memory-safe SSH server built in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/kadeessh/kadeessh]

openssh-sk-winhello - A helper for OpenSSH to interact with FIDO2 and U2F security keys through native Windows Hello API

secretive - Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

bless - Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function

thoughts - Just my public thoughts, think of it like a blog I never update

cashier - A self-service CA for OpenSSH

sekey - Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!

stateless-workstation-config - This is how I configure a fresh Ubuntu installation for serving me as a workstation.

certificates - 🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.