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grawity@grawity@social.treehouse.systems

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Reply to @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
grawity@grawity@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-15 00:50:08)
@whitequark for what it's worth, the private-part format is AFAIK taken directly from the "ssh-agent protocol" format that's now documented in RFC 9987

(just because that frankly seems a bit more readable than whatever the heck sshref's syntax is. I've never heard of "uint32 allocator" terminology before o7)

in other words, I *suspect* they reused the existing (de)serializer code, which evolved independently for the public half in ssh proper and the private half in ssh-agent, leading to a somewhat funny combined result