i’ve only sort of casually wondered what pageant was, but never really did much investigation to find out what it was good for until last night. last night was the first time that i ever wanted to set up some kind of public key authentication and it was the first time that i have ever used pageant or puttygen.

let me just say that i think they are both a wonderful thing. i’m pretty strict when it comes to security, but i think that i can live with this compromise of convenience and security. if you use ssh and aren’t using some kind of public key authentication, i suggest you check it out. it’s pretty neat.