"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : Sure, I was just following the line of thought. A generalized password storage/injection mechanism is an interesting idea, similar in requirements to storing keys really. Anyway I'll have to have some solution to this problem to finish the SSH implementation... One possible solution is to centralize the keys in a key server that can be accessed by both the client and the server. They need to communicate to the key server via strong pki. JBoss XMLKey (as part of JBoss Identity) is the direction for this (preliminary but slow steady strides). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204045#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...