alt Hacker NewsDo you type your passphrase every time you log into a remote machine? If not, the private key is in RAM and can be extracted by malware and stolen. If so, that's way more annoying than using touchid or some other physical proof of presence.
Do you type your passphrase every time you log into a remote machine? If not, the private key is in RAM and can be extracted by malware and stolen. If so, that's way more annoying than using touchid or some other physical proof of presence.
I used to install ssh_locker [1] (I don’t know if it still works), and have the passphrase in a keychain separate from the default `login` that I then set in Keychain Access to autolock after a set period of time. Handy for keeping the private key for a while in RAM and then autoremoved, instead of having it there for the whole session. It worked transparently and is a feature that should come with the OS.
[1]: https://github.com/ddribin/ssh_locker