Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#11002 closed Feature request (worksforme)

Support for encrypted ed25519 private keys

Reported by: czankl Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: FileZilla Client
Keywords: ed25519 public-key-auth sftp ssh Cc:
Component version: Operating system type: Linux
Operating system version:

Description

Recently I tried to make use of the sftp feature of FileZilla. But I realized that nor the method

  • of adding the privat key to FileZilla
  • using the SSH_AUTH_SOCK

worked for me.

I don't know why SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not working. But I guess the problem with adding the id_ed25519 key has to do with the fact, that the file format for encrypted private key has chaned.

The old format seems to be:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,DEADBEEF1234567891011121CAFFEEBABE

[...]
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

The new one misses the header that says that the following is encrypted.

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
[…]
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

So my feature request is to support the new key format that FileZilla is using here.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Tim Kosse, 7 years ago

Status: newmoreinfo

Which version of FileZilla are you using?

comment:2 by czankl, 7 years ago

Status: moreinfonew

Version 3.7.3

Compiled for: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

comment:3 by Tim Kosse, 7 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

Well that explains it. You need to update to the most recent version of FileZilla.

comment:4 by czankl, 7 years ago

Args, sorry for disturbance than! Have a nice weekend.

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