anki-code/xontrib-history-encrypt

Use `~/.ssh/id_rsa` to encrypt the history and support `ssh-agent`

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#1 opened on Dec 15, 2021

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Description

Probably the usage of the ~/.ssh/id_rsa to encrypt the history should be one of the alternatives.

After running ssh-add some_key the xonsh should run without asking the key.

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Implement encryption using ~/.ssh/id rsa and support ssh agent for key management. Modify the history encryption backend to read the public key from SSH and use ssh add for agent.
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python
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cli
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