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  • libagentcrypt: symmetric encryption with ssh-agent

    From ndilieto@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 12 13:21:34 2019
    Hello everyone

    I recently published libagentcrypt, a lightweight open source library for symmetric encryption using ssh-agent. The library relies on libsodium and also includes a small general purpose command line program that can encrypt and decrypt files or passwords
    without having to type passwords. I am posting it here because I think it may be of interest to ssh users.

    The library is maintained on github at https://github.com/ndilieto/libagentcrypt

    The documentation is at https://ndilieto.github.io/libagentcrypt

    The command line utility resembles gzip, except it encrypts/decrypts instead of compressing/decompressing. The man page is at https://ndilieto.github.io/libagentcrypt/agentcrypt.1.html

    As an example use case, I am using the library in a patched version of NeoMutt, the text based mail client. I also submitted a pull request to and I hope to get it merged upstream: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/1740

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