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When you say "OAuth", what exactly do you mean? It looks like this is really just a tool for associating email addresses with SSH keys.

This is an interesting concept, but it smells a bit like a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps it will feel more useful to me once there are two or three SSH apps that I want to access. Even then, I would suggest that prospective SSH app developers just lean on github's public SSH keys instead, as basically all developers will have a github account and this reduces your (already high, relative to webapp) startup friction.



github public ssh keys are not connected to mails. and using the api from the terminal requires installing some tool.

I hope there will be lots of apps for the the terminal, for e.g. cde (cloud dev env) managing, task management, project management, compute as a service, etc.


> using the api from the terminal requires installing some tool.

It really doesn’t. It’s just a HTTP API. So basically anything that can form a TLS connection will work.

But the bigger problem here is that email addresses can be private in GitHub. Also you never know when GitHub might change their API.




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