ECC ssh key

bpiwowar

I would like to have support for ECC ssh keys - they are used to access a cluster, and having them in 1password would be great.

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Jack.P_1P

Hey @bpiwowar:

Great question. The 1Password SSH agent currently supports both RSA keys and Ed25519 keys. Are you looking for a different keypair type in the ECC family other than Ed25519? Let me know.

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Jack

bpiwowar

Hi Jack,

sorry didn't check the type of the SSH key (I naively thought that ECC was a new encryption scheme). The type reported by ssh-keygen -l -f is ECDSA-CERT. Hopefully, this can be supported by 1password.

thanks
Benjamin

Jack.P_1P

Hey @bpiwowar:

As it currently stands, ECDSA keys were left out because they don't provide additional benefits over Ed25519, other than legacy reasons, where RSA usually makes more sense.

With that said, we haven't fully ruled out ECDSA yet. It's still on the list, and I've shared your feedback on the internal discussion we have tracking adding support for ECDSA keys.

Jack

ref: IDEA-I-2317

bpiwowar

OK thanks, it would be great as in that case I have no choice over the type of SSH key.

Benjamin

Jack.P_1P

You're very welcome @bpiwowar. Feel free to get in touch if there's anything else we can help you with.

Jack