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by publysher 3974 days ago
No, in order to mess with your repo, an attacker would need your private key. Github only publishes public keys. For more information you can check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
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GitHub doesn't even have your private key.
Oh yea, duh. Thanks for clearing that up for me, I get the two mixed up a lot. (which is bad)