Re: [Monotone-devel] keyring integration from a user POV

[Justin Patrin]

On 4/13/07, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> > On 4/13/07, Benoît Dejean <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >Le vendredi 13 avril 2007 à 11:56 -0700, Justin Patrin a écrit :
> > >> On 4/13/07, Benoît Dejean <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >> > Have you forwarded this patch upstream ?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Yes but I got no response, IIRC. The patch is also on the monotone wiki:
> > >> http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/MonotoneAndSSHAgent
> > >
> > >Is "BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY" an standard type ?
> > >
> >
> > It's how Botan exports the key and it's read fine by ssh-agent.
>
> I believe it's actually exactly the same format that ssh uses by
> default... but maybe different headers or something?  (It has some
> official name too, some complicated acronym...)

It's not...or at least I'm pretty sure it's not. When I was writing
the code I tried my hardest to find the format that ssh-keygen used
and got stumped....or at least I got stumped when trying to convert it
into Botan terms/options. I then started looking through the formats
that Botan offered and found one that worked with ssh-agent. :-/

--
Justin Patrin