SSH Agent Protocol
draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent-16

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, debcooley1@gmail.com, draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent@ietf.org, job@sobornost.net, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, ssh@ietf.org, sshm-chairs@ietf.org
Subject: Protocol Action: 'SSH Agent Protocol' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent-16.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'SSH Agent Protocol'
  (draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent-16.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Secure Shell Maintenance Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol for secure remote connections and 
login over untrusted networks. It supports multiple authentication 
mechanisms, including public key authentication. This document describes 
the protocol for interacting with a key management compoonent, usually 
referred to as "an agent", that holds private keys. SSH clients 
(and possibly SSH servers) can invoke the agent via this protocol to 
perform operations using public and private keys held in the agent.

Working Group Summary

   There was broad agreement, no threats of appeal.

Document Quality

There are a number of existing implementations, to name a few: 
OpenSSH, PuTTY, Dropbear, Paramiko, and Go ssh/agent.

No Yang, Media types registration or any other expert reviews required.

One downref to RFC 8032 - which is listed in the DOWNREF
registry.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Job Snijders. The Responsible
   Area Director is Deb Cooley.

RFC Editor Note