Gpg-agent ECDSA and pageant

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Sep 4 15:01:59 CEST 2013


On Tue,  3 Sep 2013 12:51, mustrum at mustrum.net said:

> But, does it support ECDSA for putty/pageant ?

If putty supports it, gpg-agent supports it as well.

Pageant implements the ssh-agent protocol which is what gpg-agent
implements as well.  The only difference in Pageant is that it uses the
Windows message queue for transport which tunnels the standard Unix
ssh-agent protocol.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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