• jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Meh, I’ve been using the official Firefox flatpak, and I love that my web browser has no access whatsoever to my ~/.ssh private keys, or anything else I don’t want it to be able to read

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      3 years ago

      You could store it via KeePass and ~/.ssh can only read out by your Browser if you are using the same user account to run both, so I would recommend storing ssh-keys in the home directory of another user account. Another way would be to encrypt ~/.ssh if you store your keys there.

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        3 years ago

        I was sort of cheeky with my ~/.ssh example, because I’m actually 100% on Yubikeys for my SSH private keys, so there’s only public keys in that directory now

        But, with my setup ( https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/dotfiles/-/blob/main/packages/flatpak-update.sh#L66 ) I run flatpak override --user --nofilesystem=home ... for a few things like flatpak web browsers (really, I should run this for everything)

        It’s all about defense-in-depth: putting up as many barriers as I can before the getting inconvenienced more than I’d like, and flatpak is so easy for me to use that there isn’t any inconvenience at all