alt.hn

8/1/2026 at 10:22:08 PM

RFC 9987: Secure Shell (SSH) Agent Protocol

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9987.html

by Jimmc414

8/2/2026 at 2:58:19 AM

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

by gregdaniels421

8/2/2026 at 8:29:01 AM

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.

by wahern