From ff38b54b00aa90559ccc36d837501e0af228cb64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom van der Woerdt Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:49:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md --- README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4057fd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# tnaegap-hss +ssh-agent proxy for Windows applications that only speak Pageant + +The pageant.exe implementation that comes with PuTTY has a very limited implementation of the agent protocol. To work around this, I wrote this small agent which allows Windows applications to use the regular OpenSSH ssh-agent instead of Pageant. This enables the usage of many new ciphersuites, SSH certificates, and more. + +## Installation + +### From a binary release + +(TODO) + +### From source + + git clone https://github.com/TvdW/tnaegap-hss + cd tnaegap-hss + make + ./tnaegap-hss & + +## What's with the name? + +`reverse("ssh-pageant") = "tnaegap-hss"`. @cuviper built the exact inverse of what I needed already, and it's called [ssh-pageant](https://github.com/cuviper/ssh-pageant). + +## License + +Gnu Public License (GPL), version 3 or later