Dumping Keys under certain conditions (Re: ssh-agent too easy to hack)

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:17:19PM +0100, Tim McGarry wrote:
> I often tunnel through SSH to vnc, so dumping the keys on disconnect is more
> interesting than looking for a screensaver. I've decided whether to get SSHD
> (if given the environment reqd to contact ssh-agent) to tell the agent to
> dump the keys when the forwarded port is closed. The other alternative is to
> make the change in the vnc server.

If you want your agent's keys to be one-time use then don't use
ssh-agent at all.

Nico
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