[Twisted-Python] Specification / RFC of the twisted.conch.ssh.keys.Key.privateBlob implementation

Adi Roiban adi at roiban.ro
Wed Nov 4 15:11:50 MST 2015


On 5 November 2015 at 00:05, Adi Roiban <adi at roiban.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what specifications / RFC is used for implementing
> twisted.conch.ssh.keys.Key.privateBlob ?
>
> https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/trunk/twisted/conch/ssh/keys.py#L577
>
> I could not find the over-the-wire format for private keys... as I
> supposed that private keys should not be put on the wire, in the first
> place.
>
> I did find a SSH agent draft
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-agent-02#section-1.4.1
> but the format is different than the one from the docstring.

I guess that this is OpenSSH format as it matches the implementation

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROTOCOL.agent



-- 
Adi Roiban




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