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blemasle
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Storing ssh private key should not mean storing them unencrypted
Hi,
Just found out that 1password now supports SSH keys, wonderful!
Trouble is, 1 password decrypts the private key and returns a unencrypted key when downloading the file. Why not decrypt the ...
blemasle
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Yes, I'm aware that the database is indeed encrypted. But when I export back a key I imported encrypted, I expect it to be encrypted as well. Instead, the key is stored unencrypted on my hard drive until I manually re-encrypt it. From my point of view this a security issue as there is no other way than to export he key unencrypted...
For the time being, the workaround I found is to do a double import.
* First, import the key file into a SSH key entry
* Second, attach the key file to that SSH key entry so it can be downloaded as is later on 🙃