FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
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yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2020-05-10 · latest 2026-04-03
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Instead of using a CA, why not set the key's PIN policy to "once" and use an agent (e.g. https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent/ ) that holds an active session to the yubikey? You start the agent at the beginning of the day, enter…
comment by agwa · 2026-04-03 · in SSH certificates: the better SSH experience -
Might also want to check out https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent as a very simple way to setup a yubi-key as an ssh-agent.
comment by zoidb · 2023-09-15 · in An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide -
The ; got included in the yubikey-agent URL: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent Thanks for those pointers!
comment by linsomniac · 2023-07-29 · in Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs -
…of some kind. I use "Secretive", a mac app that does the same, plus a yubikey using yubikey-agent ( https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent ; there are too many complicated ways to use SSH keys with a yubikey this is one of the…
comment by lathiat · 2023-07-29 · in Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs -
Also check out https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent which simplifies the setup quite a bit.
comment by zoidb · 2023-03-10 · in Secretive: Store SSH Keys in the Secure Enclave -
…mode, but I don't like the FIDO mode anyway because it requires storing a file on the computer. https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
comment by yencabulator · 2022-10-01 · in Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership) -
…and needing to touch the Yubikey once for each server. The feature request I'm tracking is here: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent/issues/95 The proposed feature would allow setting a touch policy for the SSH key.
comment by markstos · 2022-05-30 · in How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey -
https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent has worked really well for me in the past.
comment by xvector · 2022-05-30 · in How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey -
…own is the mobile app, I would love a community solution there. I am also planning to integrate https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent which makes the SSH authentication part very easy, so that you only type your PIN once and it…
comment by FiloSottile · 2022-04-29 · in Ask HN: CLI Tool for File Encryption? -
…store, without messing with PAM or needing custom key types or special files on the client host: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
comment by yencabulator · 2021-09-15 · in FreeBSD SSH Hardening -
Finally! Was using https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent before and now probably can migrate out of it since github was holding me back.
comment by ava1ar · 2021-05-10 · in Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations -
I guess you can use https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent to store an ssh key on a yubikey, and then use age to encrypt to the ssh key. Getting minisign to sign using a key in a ubikey is not supported out of the box, but should be…
comment by wolf550e · 2020-09-04 · in GnuPG 2.2.23 -
…provides PKCS#11 and PKCS#15 with OpenSC straight ootb. e.g. issues that described here are avoided https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent#alternatives
comment by xaduha · 2020-07-01 · in How to use FIDO2 USB keys with SSH -
…https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Guides/SSH_with_PIV_and_PK... or Filippo Valsordas yubikey-agent https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
comment by Xylakant · 2020-06-30 · in How to use FIDO2 USB keys with SSH -
…with me. The agent is also integrated with pinentry so it requires a pin code for the session. [0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
comment by miguelmota · 2020-06-28 · in Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave