Publishing Gems With Your YubiKey

· Aaron Patterson · Oct. 26, 2021, 10:44 p.m.
Summary
The recent compromise of ua-parser-js has put the security and trust of published packages at the top of my mind lately. In order to mitigate the risk of any Ruby Gems I manage to be hijacked, I enabled 2FA on my RubyGems.org account. This means that whenever I publish a Ruby Gem, I have to enter a one time passcode. I have to admit, I find this to be a pain. Whenever I do a release of Rails, I have to enter a passcode over and over again because you can only push one Gem at a time. Finally I’v...
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