Thursday, December 31, 2015

[Windows]How to create public / private key pair

Use PUTTYGEN
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

It's quite intuitive to use. The only step you may misunderstand is : They ask you to move your mouse cursor in the blank area so that the randomness can be used to create the keys. The progress bar won't move unless you move your mouse there.
Make sure you save your public key and private key

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