Nevertheless, starting mid-September 2021 until mid-March 2022, GitHub will slowly phase-out less secure technology making room for more secure ones.įollowing the recent removal of the support for passwords over HTTPS, which was part of GitHub's drive to keep customers' data as secure as possible, they decided to stop using old key types. These changes might affect only SSH and 'git://' users, while the ' users will be unaffected.
Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys and some legacy SSH algorithms.
