[arch-general] gpg-agent: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE when adding an ECDSA key

Patrick Burroughs (Celti) celticmadman at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 03:03:01 EDT 2014


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> According to what I've found gpg-agent's ssh-agent should, as of
> version 2.0.21, support ECDSA keys, but still I can't add such a key:
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or should I just use ssh-agent from OpenSSH
> instead (or stop using ECDSA keys)?

ECDSA SSH keys in gpg-agent broke with libgcrypt 1.6+. You can get
them working again by building gnupg from git.

Regards,
~Celti


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