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Can you please elaborate on why preventing ssh agent is good?

• deleted 5y ago
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• tptacek 5y ago
  Forwarding your agent exposes your authentication secrets to the machines you're connecting to.
  • tedunangst 5y ago
    A bit late, but I feel it's important to clarify it exposes something like "authentication capability" not the actual secrets. It's temporally bounded.
    • tptacek 5y ago
      Yeah, I had the same itchy thought when I wrote this; I decided to keep it simple.