Re: Extension of the agent protocol for the PKCS#11 URI scheme

[Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec%oracle.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, der Mouse wrote:

>>> http://www.vandyke.com/technology/draft-ietf-secsh-agent.txt
>> hi, I found the document when looking for the write-ups of the
>> protocol and this one seems to be quite different from what OpenSSH
>> and many other implementations support.  The differences are subtle
>> but there are quite a few of them.  For example, check format of
>> SSH_AGENTC_ADD_RSA_IDENTITY versus SSH_AGENT_ADD_KEY.
>
>I'd be interested to hear where I can find the documentation on this
>protocol OpenSSH &c speak.  Are you talking about the stuff in
>http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.agent?rev=HEAD
>or is this something else?  (I need to go through and figure out
>exactly what moussh implements; I don't recall whether I bothered to
>check whether the various bits of documentation I have agree with one
>another or not.)

	yes. I believe that PROTOCOL.agent file is the de facto place to 
read about the agent protocol that OpenSSH and others use. I haven't 
found it elsewhere. J.

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