> The agent will never send a private key over its request channel. Instead, operations that require a private key will be performed by the agent, and the result will be returned to the requester. This way, private keys are not exposed to clients using the agent.
This sounds like a pretty gaping security hole by Microsoft. I would not assume loading private keys to an "ssh-agent" means giving any process (browser, email client etc.) running on the same machine access to the unencrypted values!
https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent:
> The agent will never send a private key over its request channel. Instead, operations that require a private key will be performed by the agent, and the result will be returned to the requester. This way, private keys are not exposed to clients using the agent.
This sounds like a pretty gaping security hole by Microsoft. I would not assume loading private keys to an "ssh-agent" means giving any process (browser, email client etc.) running on the same machine access to the unencrypted values!