[cygwin] gpg-agent with ssh support ?

Brian Minton brian at minton.name
Thu Mar 12 21:13:40 CET 2015


Another option that I often use is https://github.com/wesleyd/charade,
which opens a unix domain socket on cygwin, connected to Pageant, so
cygwin programs and windows programs that use PuTTY can share the same
authentication.  Another similar program is
http://github.com/cuviper/ssh-pageant

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.email> wrote:
> On 3/12/15 2:59 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:23, dougb at dougbarton.email said:
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>>> PuTTY also has its own agent support, which works quite well. I'm not
>>> sure why it's necessary to reinvent the wheel here. :)
>>
>>
>> Because that integrates seemless with GnuPG.  For example you can use
>> your OpenPGP card (or other supoorted smartcards) for ssh.  No need for
>> the ssh-add kludge.
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> And that would be a good reason, sure. But I don't get the impression that
> the OP has one of those. :)
>
> Doug
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