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RFC 9987: Secure Shell (SSH) Agent Protocol (rfc-editor.org)
9 points by Jimmc414 54 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Oof, super ugly, doesn't map well to actual agent use, not a fan


This is documenting and standardizing OpenSSH's ssh-agent daemon protocol, used by ssh and sshd to talk to ssh-agent. ssh-agent is like 30 years old. The protocol wire format is derivative of the SSH protocol.




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