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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by metadat on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:28PM (#40045172)
100% agreed.

For me, the stakes are very low. It's my windows "gaming" machine, and has access to a few low-value hosts.

Otherwise I'd invest the time to learn wtf is pageant ;D

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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by lambdafu on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:33PM (#40045222)
If the hosts are under your control, and never connect to untrusted hosts, then you are ok. The user authentication is encrypted, so the signatures are not visible to a man in the middle.
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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by adw on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:35PM (#40045241)
Pageant is `ssh-agent`.
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