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  • Support for alternative key agents in PuTTY SSH client

    From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 23 09:05:42 2018
    XPost: comp.terminals

    Dmitry Katsubo <[email protected]> writes:

    Per my experience, and also as the question is more specific to
    the PuTTY /SSH/ function, this question is better suited for
    news:comp.security.ssh, to where I'm hereby cross-posting.

    Dear PuTTY developers & community,

    With growing interest to OpenSSH for Windows (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH) I wonder if it would be possible to implement support for OpenSSH agent (via Windows native
    pipe)? Or (alternatively or supplementary) support for Cygwin
    ssh-agent (via Cygwin or MSYS socket)? With "support" I mean that
    PuTTY SSH client is able to get private key from another key agent.

    In general I wonder how different is the PuTTY's client-agent
    protocol from one implemented in SSH?

    Thanks in advance.

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    FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/

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