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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by spacemanspiff01 on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:15PM (#40046315)
Windows has a built in ssh-agent included with openssh, no need for pagent anymore.

Ssh agent will manage your ssh keys through windows registry windows login process.

Also if you use wsl, you can access your ssh keys in wsl from the windows ssh-agent via npiperelay

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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by yau8edq12i on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @09:02AM (#40051369)
You don't even need a relay to use the windows SSH agent from wsl. Simply use ssh.exe instead of /bin/ssh. I've been doing that for a while (I make a symlink in a folder from my PATH that gets picked up before /bin) and haven't encountered any issues so far.
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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by spacemanspiff01 on Friday April 19, 2024 @08:34AM (#40086023)
Good to know, I had an issue when I tried that, but thinking back it was a ssh version incompatibility between the default windows and ubuntu.
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