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by 0xbadcafebee 1344 days ago
Yes; if you dig into the links I left, Git can use a variety of credential managers to protect them.

Speaking of ssh key passwords: until OpenSSH 7.8 (2018-08-24), private keys using the PEM format were vulnerable to brute-force password cracking. You had to specify the -o option to use the more secure OpenSSH-format keys. Today the -o option is the default (and thus gone), but you might want to rotate your keys if they're from before September 2018.

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Oh, thanks for the heads up I did not know that about PEM keys!