After a Bitwarden update on Windows 11 this morning (Version is still 2025.4.2 as it was before, not sure what changed), using the SSH agent to connect to a linux server with a stored RSA key is no longer working. Bitwarden prompts to allow the key access, but the ssh connection errors with sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for RSA "local ssh" from agent: agent refused operation, with “local ssh” being the key name. I am getting this failure attempting to connect to multiple hosts. This key and setup had been working for the past month. Git operations with an ed25519 key are still functional. Reboot and reinstall yield the same error.
Changing my ssh key to an ed25519 key worked around this issue.
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