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tedivm on April 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deprecating password authentication in GitHub API

Can client side certificates be "locked" in the same way that SSH keys can (where you require a passphrase before it is loaded into the ssh agent)?

u801e on April 12, 2020 [–]

When you generate a private key using openssl, it will prompt you for a passphrase.

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