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ecdsa ssh keys and gpg-agent's ssh-agent emulation
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When I try to ssh-add an ECDSA key, I get:
"
SSH_AGENT_FAILURE
Could not add identity: some_key
"
I found that the upcoming gnupg 2.1 merged gnupg-ecc, so there is
support for ecdsa in gpg now. I upgraded my gnupg to the most recent git
version, but found my ssh keys were still not accepted.

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Version
2.1.*

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bluescreen303 set Version to 2.1.*.Apr 8 2012, 9:16 AM
bluescreen303 added projects: gnupg (gpg20), Feature Request, gpgagent, ssh.
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• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Apr 10 2012, 8:04 PM

There is no ECC support for the agent, yet. The ssh protocol is different from
the OpenPGP Protocol. It should be easy to add support, though.

bluescreen303 added a comment.Apr 10 2012, 9:26 PM

Would be great to have included if 2.1 is the ecc release.

I would love to just have 1 agent for everything.

• werner added a project: gnupg.Apr 18 2012, 12:06 PM
• werner added a comment.Jul 1 2013, 9:03 PM

I just backported the new ssh-agent code from master to the 2.0 branch. Thus
2.0.21 will have this support.

• werner closed this task as Resolved.Jul 1 2013, 9:03 PM
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