dotfiles.nix vs sekey

dotfiles.nix

My dotfiles in NIX (by shinzui)

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Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication! (by sekey)

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dotfiles.nix		sekey
	Project
1	Mentions	4
6	Stars	2,429
-	Growth	0.4%
8.5	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Nix	Language	Rust
-	License	MIT License

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dotfiles.nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.

Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022

nix-darwin currently does not support that directly, but there is an open PR to fix that. For my dotfiles, I added the module from the PR with some slight modifications. You can find the code below.
https://github.com/shinzui/dotfiles.nix/blob/master/modules/...

sekey

Posts with mentions or reviews of sekey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.

Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
Apple/Google/Microsoft to accelerate rollout of passwordless sign‑in standard
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2022

> relaying auth requests to your phone for approval and storing secrets in the Secure Enclave
Like https://github.com/kryptco/kr [key stored in a [...] mobile app]?
Also, newer Macs have a Secure Enclave (supports 256-bit secp256r1 ECC keys):
https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive [storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave [...] or a Smart Card (such as a YubiKey)]
https://github.com/sekey/sekey [Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!]
Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2021
How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2021

Similar to the recommendations to use a YubiKey/hardware token, SeKey on a Mac lets you use a key generated in the Secure Enclave in an unexportable form (https://github.com/sekey/sekey)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles.nix and sekey you can also consider the following projects:

pam_wtid - Patch for Apple's pam_tid PAM Touch ID module to add sudo watch authentication

secretive - Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

pam-watchid - PAM plugin module that allows the Apple Watch to be used for authentication

WSL-Hello-sudo - Let's sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL.

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

toucli - Use TouchID and the Secure Enclave to encrypt data from the commandline.

pamgpgr

sudo-touchid - A fork of `sudo` with Touch ID support.

WinCryptSSHAgent - Using a Yubikey for SSH Authentication on Windows Seamlessly

webauthn - Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials