GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...

The article (as I understand it) discusses that by default, your SSH private key passphrase is essentially just a glorified MD5 hash, which is relatively easy to brute-force due to the speed at ...

GitHub's RSA SSH private key was accidentally leaked to the public, as confirmed by the code hosting platform's CEO, Mike Hanley.

It seems like it is the same concept as using a public/private key pair for ssh that you stick in the ~/.ssh directory but is instead a file you end up using at the command line with an ssh client.

In them they found over 580 unique private keys for SSH and HTTPS, many of them shared between multiple devices from the same vendor or even from different ones.