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SSH, the secure shell, is often used to access remote Linux systems. But its authentication mechanism, where a private local key is paired with a public remote key, is used to secure all kinds of online services, from GitHub and Launchpad to Linux running on Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

• Jun 12, 2013  Using PuTTY and keyfiles to SSH into your Ubuntu 12.04 server Generate a key pair. Download PuTTY and PuTTY Key Generator from. Tie the key to a PuTTY profile. Now close PuTTY Key Generator and start PuTTY. Edit the ssh settings on.
• Key generation with PuTTY. To generate a key pair with the PuTTY key generator, simply run puttygen.exe and click the Generate button in the window that appears. You will be asked to move the mouse and press keys to improve the random number generation at the heart of SSH security.

Generating a set of RSA keys with PuTTYgen to securely access CloudSigma’s cloud: Start PuTTYgen. Click the Generate button. Move your mouse pointer around randomly in the blank area of the Key section below the progress bar until the progress bar is full. Aug 09, 2018  Generate SSH Keys on Windows 10 with PuTTY. To generate a key pair with the PuTTY key generator, simply run andputtygen.exe click the Generate button in the window that appears. You will be asked to move the mouse and press keys to improve.

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Generating these keys from Linux is easy, and thanks to Ubuntu on Windows, you can follow the same process from Windows 10. But even without Ubuntu, SSH keys can also be generated with the free and open source Windows application, PuTTy

Over the following few steps, we’ll guide you through the process of generating SSH keys using both Ubuntu on Windows and PuTTY.

Requirements

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All you need is a PC running Windows 10 and either of the following installed:

• The puttygen.exe executable from PuTTY

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If you don’t already have Ubuntu on Windows, take a look at our Install Ubuntu on Windows 10 tutorial.