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Hardware-based SSH/GPG/age agent

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2016-02-08 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …What if the software becomes incompatible, or trezor devices become expensive/change etc. [0] https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent
    comment by rustyhancock · 2026-10-21 · in Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID
  2. …since ~2016. I have a Ledger that has a private key inside and using a small open source tool ( https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent ) I can SSH into machines, sign random data and Github commits and FIDO authenticate into several…
    comment by csomar · 2021-11-13 · in Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
  3. You can use a trezor and https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent The cool thing is that the key is derived from the trezor's seed, so you can have several backup devices. And you need pin+passphrase not just the yubikey.
    comment by Deadsunrise · 2019-03-01 · in 2FA on the command line
  4. As an awesome alternative you can use a Trezor (or KeepKey) with https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent for GPG and SSH. Unlike the YubiKey, with the Trezor you have have to enter a scrambled numeric PIN to use it.
    comment by rendaw · 2018-02-28 · in Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH
  5. …course use it as bitcoin wallet :) SSH: https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-apps/sshagent.html GPG: https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent 2FA: https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-user/u2f.html
    comment by urza · 2018-01-16 · in Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH
  6. …interface to sign and decrypt. This keeps the key safe even if your computer is compromised. See: https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent
    comment by jb55 · 2017-10-05 · in Strategies for offline PGP key storage
  7. …hardware devices for common GnuPG operations, e.g. signatures and decryption. Please take a look at https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent/blob/master/README-GP... for more details. Disclosure: I am the main developer of this project.
    comment by roman_zeyde · 2017-06-13 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Yubikey?
  8. …setup work. Blog post: https://medium.com/@satoshilabs/trezor-firmware-1-3-4-enable... Source code: https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent (the README has several demo screencasts).
    comment by sapereaude · 2016-02-08 · in SSH: Best practices