RFC 9987: Secure Shell (SSH) Agent Protocol

Posted by Jimmc414 1 day ago

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Comment by gregdaniels421 1 day ago

Oof, super ugly, doesn't map well to actual agent use, not a fan

Comment by wahern 1 day ago

This is documenting and standardizing OpenSSH's ssh-agent daemon protocol, used by ssh and sshd to talk to ssh-agent. ssh-agent is like 30 years old. The protocol wire format is derivative of the SSH protocol.