RFC 9987: Secure Shell (SSH) Agent Protocol

9 pointsposted a day ago
by Jimmc414

2 Comments

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

wahern

18 hours 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.