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SSH-TPM-agent · Release v0.9.0

Details

External ID
48013730
Source
HN
Company
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Product
SSH-TPM-agent · Release v0.9.0
Website domain
github.com
Launched
May 4, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
6
Upvotes percentile
0.3053311793214863
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
developer tools for ai agents
Vertical
Security
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
ssh agent for tpm
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No An SSH agent backed by hardware TPM requires specialized cryptography implementation, low-level TPM 2.0 specifications (TSS2), platform security, and standard SSH protocol daemon handling.

What it would actually take: The application is written in Go or C/Rust implementing an OpenSSH agent protocol daemon that talks directly to TPM 2.0 chips via the TSS2 library or OS device nodes (`/dev/tpmrm0`, Cryptography Next Gen on Windows). It requires deep knowledge of cryptographic key sealing, PCR policies, platform authorization, attestation, and secure handling of non-migratable hardware private keys.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Client-side host key management on Mac

Concerns raised: Security guarantees of software TPM in cloud environments, Software TPM provides limited protection vs hardware TPM, Keys could still be extracted from cloud servers

Feature requests: Windows support, macOS support

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 377 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #249 of 378 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 179 days after the earliest competitor.

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