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0 pointstptacek4y ago0 comments

Forwarding your agent exposes your authentication secrets to the machines you're connecting to.

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tedunangst4y ago· 1 in thread

A bit late, but I feel it's important to clarify it exposes something like "authentication capability" not the actual secrets. It's temporally bounded.

tptacekOP4y ago

Yeah, I had the same itchy thought when I wrote this; I decided to keep it simple.

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