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.

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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.

The.pub file is your public key, and the other file is the corresponding private key. If you don’t have these files (or you don’t even have a.ssh directory), you can create them by running a program called ssh-keygen, which is provided with the SSH package on Linux/macOS systems.

Jun 26, 2019  Use Public Key Authentication with SSH. Updated Wednesday, June 26, 2019 by Linode Written by Linode. The following instructions use the PuTTY software to connect over SSH, but other options are available on Windows too. Generate a Key Pair with PuTTY. To do that, start the ssh-agent service as Administrator and use ssh-add to store the private key. # Make sure you're running as an Administrator Start-Service ssh-agent # This should return a status of Running Get-Service ssh-agent # Now load your key files into ssh-agent ssh-add.ssh ided25519. Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent. If you created your key with a different name, or if you are adding an existing key that has a different name, replace idrsa in the command with the name of your private key file. $ ssh-add /.ssh/idrsa; Add the SSH key to your GitHub account.

Requirements

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.