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teh_c
4 years agoNew Contributor
[Windows] WSL integration possible using some extra tools
Hello!
Just a note to say that by using a few extra tools (the security implications I still need to understand, caveat emptor etc.), I was able to get the SSH integration working fantasically wel...
ag_Christian
1Password Team
3 years agoHey everyone,
To start, I have no update into "official" support for the integration, sorry.
Regarding the security of it, @tghosth, I don't believe it would be too much less secure then if we built it into 1Password for Windows ourselves. The only thing that comes to mind is that another process could utilize the trust 1Password applies to the proxy process to allow that other, unintended, process to use the SSH key without approval. Whether or not this is a true security problem is heavily dependent on your own threat model.
Additionally in the feature's experience, you may lose is contextual information or longer-lasting approvals by proxying the messages (which only have "public" data in them) through some relay process on your system.