Comment on Improving the security of your SSH private key filesComments−edwintorok13yIt is possible to store SSH private keys in gpg-agent, which uses the openpgp-s2k3-sha1-aes-cbc algo to encrypt the key for storage.s2k3 is an iterated-and-salted s2k algorithm from RFC2440, the protected private key format is: https://gitorious.org/gnupg-org/gnupg/blobs/master/agent/key...The number of iterations is at least 65536, whereas with pkcs8 openssl uses 2048 iterations by default.More details on how to use SSH keys with GPG agent: http://budts.be/weblog/2012/08/ssh-authentication-with-your-...
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It is possible to store SSH private keys in gpg-agent, which uses the openpgp-s2k3-sha1-aes-cbc algo to encrypt the key for storage.
s2k3 is an iterated-and-salted s2k algorithm from RFC2440, the protected private key format is: https://gitorious.org/gnupg-org/gnupg/blobs/master/agent/key...
The number of iterations is at least 65536, whereas with pkcs8 openssl uses 2048 iterations by default.
More details on how to use SSH keys with GPG agent: http://budts.be/weblog/2012/08/ssh-authentication-with-your-...