ssh-agent decrypt

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Damien Miller wrote:

> Given those, it would still be possible to make a SSH agent extension to
> support encryption, If you do this, then please consider using the
> extension mechanism in the ssh-agent protocol draft - 
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-miller-ssh-agent-02.txt

Actually, you don't need any extensions to do this - you can get
the pubkey from the agent directly and convert it to PEM format using
"ssh-keygen -e -m PEM -f /path/key.pub > /path/key.pem"

>From there you can use the standard openssl API or tools to do your
crypto.

-d