You can generate an SSH key on Windows using the PuTTY SSH client. You can download PuTTY for free from this URL.

May 16, 2018  How to Enable and Use Windows 10’s New Built-in SSH Commands Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated May 16, 2018, 4:17pm EDT Microsoft announced it was bringing an integrated OpenSSH client to Windows in 2015. Oct 23, 2016 If the Linux machine is running OpenSSH, it will generate the key for you to log into it from Putty or FTP. If you log into the Windows Machine with FTP, you would need a SSH keygen running on the Windows machine. Both machines cannot generate a separate SSH key for the same session. /three-generations-of-hairstons-answer-key.html. When the keys get out of sync on the remote system.

To generate a key with PuTTY, you should:

• Download and start the puttygen.exe generator.
• In the 'Parameters' section choose SSH2 DSA and press Generate.
• Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.
• Enter a key comment, which will identify the key (useful when you use several SSH keys).
• Type in the passphrase and confirm it. The passphrase is used to protect your key. You will be asked for it when you connect via SSH.
• Click 'Save private key' to save your private key.
• Click 'Save public key' to save your public key.

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For more information on how to load the key and connect via SSH using PuTTY, please check this tutorial.

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