![]() Private keys are protected with DPAPI and stored in the HKCU registry hive. This was a fun investigative journey and I got better at working with PowerShell. I’ll outline in this post my methodology and steps to figuring it out. I’ve had some good fun in the past with hijacking SSH-agents, so I decided to start looking to see how Windows is “securely” storing your private keys with this new service. I found some references to using the new Windows ssh-agent in this MSDN article, and this part immediately grabbed my attention: I started poking around and reading up more on what features were supported, and was pleasantly surprised to see ssh-agent.exe is included. Using OpenSSH natively in Windows is awesome since Windows admins no longer need to use Putty and PPK formatted keys. ![]() This weekend I installed the Windows 10 Spring Update, and was pretty excited to start playing with the new, builtin OpenSSH tools.
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