forwagent | Experimental gpg agent forwarding for Windows

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forwagent is a Python library. forwagent has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. However forwagent build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

Forwagent allows forwarding gpg-agent sockets on Windows for use with GPG and SSH over TCP. For example, allow WSL or VMs to create signatures or SSH using keys stored on a YubiKey, without having access to the YubiKey itself. Tunneled connections use an encrypted transport, with mutual authentication of client and server. The server works on Windows, only. The client has only been tested on Ubuntu, but might work on other distros. NOTE: This project should be considered experimental, and is provided as-is. NOTE: This project was initially written in Go. The old code can be found in the git history.

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forwagent is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License. This license is Permissive.

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It has 288 lines of code, 23 functions and 5 files.

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Execute the server
Runs SSL
Returns the argument parser
Run the main loop
Forward two sockets
Get a gpg agent
Get the SSH agent
Returns a tuple of the names of all open sockets
Get the directory for a GPG directory
Ensure that gpg - agent is started
Execute the command line interface

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Install forwagent

Both client and server need to have GnuPG installed, and their versions should be close to ensure compatbility of the gpg-agent protocol. You can use pip (or an alternative, like pipx) to install forwagent. The package defines two "extras" which are needed to run the server, and to initialize the configuration.
Initialize the configuration by running forwagent init. This will create a .forwagent/ directory in your users $HOME, and a self-signed certificate which will be used in the files key.pem and cert.pem. An empty trusted.pem file will be created for adding trusted client certificates. You will need to add client certificates to the trusted.pem file before the server will accept connections. If any of the files in .forwagent/ are changed, the server will need to be restarted for those changes to take effect. Run forwagent server to start the server. By default the server runs on 127.0.0.1:4711, but this can be set by providing the --interface and --port arguments when running. You'll most likely want to automate the startup of the server so that it runs each time the computer starts. See the files in doc/ for suggestions on how to do this.
The users private key should be usable from Windows.
The gpg-connect-agent.exe executable should be in the users PATH.
The gpg-agent.conf should have enable-putty-support.
Initialize the configuration by running forwagent init. This will create a .forwagent/ directory in your users $HOME, and a self-signed certificate which will be used in the files key.pem and cert.pem. An empty trusted.pem file will be created for adding the servers certificate. Run forwagent agent to start the client. By default the client will connect to a server running on 127.0.0.1:4711, but this can be set by providing the --interface and --port arguments when running.

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