The best of the best has arrived: ease of use in SSH cryptography, making what used to be hard available for the masses. It's a freeware Cocoa program called SSH Agent.
It slices, it dices, it makes curly fries, but more importantly, it generates SSH public/private key pairs, provides an ssh-agent environment to all user programs, auto-adds SSH private keys to that agent environment upon login (optionally using the keychain to store the keys' passphrases), and it can be used to easily construct SSH "tunnels" to secure insecure protocols.
Awesome. Now if only it had 17 mousebuttons, generated sufficient heat to fry eggs and weighed as much as a brick...
[Editor's note: I have not tried this program myself, but it seemed worth a mention to those that wish to make SSH a bit easier to use.]
It slices, it dices, it makes curly fries, but more importantly, it generates SSH public/private key pairs, provides an ssh-agent environment to all user programs, auto-adds SSH private keys to that agent environment upon login (optionally using the keychain to store the keys' passphrases), and it can be used to easily construct SSH "tunnels" to secure insecure protocols.
Awesome. Now if only it had 17 mousebuttons, generated sufficient heat to fry eggs and weighed as much as a brick...
[Editor's note: I have not tried this program myself, but it seemed worth a mention to those that wish to make SSH a bit easier to use.]
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