Developers Guide to GPG and YubiKey

Tutorial: API clients have different capabilities and needs! Learn how to make your server select the correct languages, media types, and compression!

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Content negotiation allows for an HTTP server to respond to different types of clients. Many modern clients expect a JSON response, but there may be a need to format responses differently, maybe XML for older clients or a binary format for newer ones. Content negotiation is the mechanism used to solve that problem and others, such as dealing with multiple languages and even compressing HTTP requests.

Developers Guide to GPG and YubiKey

Tutorial: Set up a YubiKey for GPG and SSH!

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Setting up a new YubiKey as a second factor is easy—your browser walks you through the entire process. However, setting up a YubiKey to sign your Git commits and Secure Shell (SSH) authentication is a very different experience. In this post, I’ll walk through configuring a YubiKey and highlight some of the things I’ve learned along the way.