Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness

• openssh-portable

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  Portable OpenSSH windows patches (by rurban)

• putty-cac

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  Windows Secure Shell Client With Support For Smart Cards, Certificates, & FIDO Keys

>so I've been working on extending our support for hardware-backed SSH certificates to Windows

Interesting work & I wish him luck. The ability to use hardware SSH certs on Windows has been around for at least a decade now, but it hasn't been a seamless experience.

The other attempt I'm aware of is PuTTY-CAC[0]. The issue with PuTTY-CAC is that the server still needs to be configured to check the certificate against CRLs & PKI infrastructure. Even without that, it is still used in security-conscious organizations, like the US Department of Veteran Affairs [1], for example.

[0] https://github.com/NoMoreFood/putty-cac

[1] https://www.oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/ToolPage.aspx?tid=8714#

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• WinCryptSSHAgent

  7 516 2.0 Go

  Using a Yubikey for SSH Authentication on Windows Seamlessly

If that project https://github.com/buptczq/WinCryptSSHAgent had a pin timeout, it would be the perfect Windows ssh agent. It support named pipe, pagent shared memory and a UNIX socket under WSL2 using Hyper-V and socat.

• git

  616 8,070 0.0 C

  A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  

> Git for Windows is built on top of msys2, which in turn is built on top of Cygwin.

you can get native Windows Git as well. its called MinGit:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.42.0....

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