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by tptacek 2984 days ago
Right, but that's a long-lived durable SSH credential. Part of the point of modern SSH access management is not to have any of those anymore.
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Yes in this case the Krypton SSH key pair is long-lived, but the certificate issued to it by the server would be short-lived.

How are users authenticating to this 2FA CA in the first place? Instead of using username/password and 2FA, users could authenticate to the CA using Krypton and then use the issued certificate for short-lived access.

If Krypton using a long-lived SSH keypair is a non-starter, automatic key rotation could be added down the line (sort of like being forced to change your password but this would be automated).