SSH agent–managed SSH keys

You probably already know: there’s no excuse to not be using a password manager in 2026. If you read my blog regularly, you may even be a person actually using a password manager. It’s possible, though, that you don’t use said password manager to manage your SSH keys. If you didn’t already know you can manage your SSH credentials seamlessly in 1Password. You can do it with KeePassXC, too. I’m not going to mention the other big password managers by name, but at least one of them also already has built-in SSH agent support. Yes, the managers implement an SSH agent (see ssh-agent) and make authenticating via SSH feel kinda like authenticating to Netflix via a web browser. More than ever, it’s a good idea to not store any credentials (or sensitive data in general) unencrypted on your disks. More than ever because there have been many notable instances of open-source software having recently been compromised via supply-chain attacks and backdoors. Group-IB characterizes supply-chain…