SSH/PGP Agent with Ledger Nano S possible to run on Windows?

[eastabrooka]

Port from https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-live-desktop/issues/1605. This Bug report was raised initially by https://github.com/peatrick . I have just bought a Ledger, and I believe I have unknowingly replicated this bug, stumbled across this issue, bumped this issue, and one of the devs closed down the ticket.

I believe the dev was correct to close the ticket, as it was associated with the live application - where as it should have been assigned to the ssh-agent.

Repost from my experience follows.

Ledger Live Version and Operating System tested on Ledger Live 1.2.6 Platform and version: Windows 10 17134 . Device Firmware 1.4.2 Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Expected behavior I was reading the guide here : https://trello.com/c/lzrZ7Vyv/29-ssh-gpg-agent-app after just buying a Ledger Nano to keep my SSH Keys safe.

I was hoping that by doing

python -m pip install --upgrade pip pip install --upgrade setuptools pip install libusb

and then pip3 install ledger-agent - id be able to leverage all the Ledger-agent SSH Tools from inside windows.

What i actually got was

Actual behavior Collecting ledger-agent Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a3/c9/ac7546d6168662af356493231ca8818bdf8ffd05238a68fe5085fd9e6358/ledger_agent-0.9.0.tar.gz Collecting libagent>=0.9.0 (from ledger-agent) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5f/e2/f18cee65d480b66953e5a5ed9093c8a8e24d39011d6520dbbff262d6aead/libagent-0.12.1.tar.gz Collecting ledgerblue>=0.1.8 (from ledger-agent) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3c/62/39d9b29f5ada49a0ec595e275d5326dd9e6f94939138884506a4105dcedb/ledgerblue-0.1.21.tar.gz Collecting backports.shutil_which>=3.5.1 (from libagent>=0.9.0->ledger-agent) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3d/1b/136e8ffa98ce077e12afde6c333eb2b61266e0de0e404ec7a0c47b8f8a8b/backports.shutil_which-3.5.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting ConfigArgParse>=0.12.1 (from libagent>=0.9.0->ledger-agent) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/77/61/ae928ce6ab85d4479ea198488cf5ffa371bd4ece2030c0ee85ff668deac5/ConfigArgParse-0.13.0.tar.gz Collecting python-daemon>=2.1.2 (from libagent>=0.9.0->ledger-agent) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/99/2a/75fe6aa7086e838570f29899f674e7896a42be26d9fff33f90d990e599d2/python-daemon-2.2.0.tar.gz Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-22kq7ppc\python-daemon\setup.py", line 34, in level=0, fromlist=main_module_fromlist) File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-22kq7ppc\python-daemon\daemoninit.py", line 38, in from .daemon import DaemonContext File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-22kq7ppc\python-daemon\daemon\daemon.py", line 19, in import pwd ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pwd'

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-22kq7ppc\python-daemon\

Steps to reproduce the behavior I am starting to feel that the OpenPGP / SSH Key side of life on the Ledger Nano S is a bit limited. I was reading the docs at https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-app-openpgp-card/blob/master/doc/user/blue-app-openpgp-card.pdf - and finding that the Windows section is still TODO.

Having just purchased this device for non-crypto purposes, and primarily being a windows user - I am worried that I wont be able to use it for this.

Is this the case ?

[eastabrooka]

Ended up returning the device to Amazon. Support was awful.

[utenma]

this is only supported for unix OS like linux/mac, you may want to use something like yubico instead

[eastabrooka]

Hah. I haven't thought about this for a long time.

Yeah Yubikey was amazing for this.

Even under Windows I could get GPG agent to connect to it.

Would recommend.