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Add Section on SSH Agent Forwarding to FAQ #360

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Expand Up @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Please run `ssh -Tv git@github.com` in your terminal and paste the output in a [

You can create a `mykey.pub` (where `mykey` is the name of your key) in your `~/.ssh/` directory with the contents of your public key, and specify that you want to use that key in your `~/.ssh/config`. [This ServerFault answer](https://serverfault.com/a/295771) has more details on setting that up

### Can I use Secretive for SSH Agent Forwarding?

Yes, you can! Once you've set up Secretive, just add `ForwardAgent yes` to the hosts you want to forward to in your SSH config file. Afterwards, any use of one of your SSH keys on the remote host must be authenticated through Secretive.

### Why should I trust you?

You shouldn't, for a piece of software like this. Secretive, by design, has an auditable build process. Each build has a fully auditable build log, showing the source it was built from and a SHA of the build product. You can check the SHA of the zip you download against the SHA output in the build log (which is linked in the About window).
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