A library that allows using the keys in the SSH Agent to perform symmetric, authenticated encryption and decryption securely without typing passwords. It works with both RSA and ED25519 SSH keys including those made available to a remote host by SSH Agent forwarding.
The library is documented here
The distribution also includes a command line utility which has a unix man page. The HTML version is here
Please do not use the master branch. Pristine releases are in the upstream/latest branch, tagged as upstream/x.x.x
The following will install the latest release
export PKG_URL=https://github.com/ndilieto/libagentcrypt/archive/upstream/latest.tar.gz
mkdir -p libagentcrypt
wget -O - $PKG_URL | tar zx -C libagentcrypt --strip-components=1
cd libagentcrypt
./configure --disable-maintainer-mode
make install
If you believe you have found a bug, please log it at https://github.com/ndilieto/libagentcrypt/issues
If you have any suggestions for improvements, pull requests are welcome.
Copyright (c) 2019-2022, Nicola Di Lieto nicola.dilieto@gmail.com
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