
Select your key and follow the prompts to enter your pass phrase. To do this, launch PuTTYgen and from the "Conversions" menu, select the "Import key" option. However, if your key is in OpenSSH format, you first need to convert it to PuTTY's PPK format. If your key file is already in PuTTY's PPK format you can skip this paragraph. Or contact the system administrator, and then you can log in with the private key. It will generate a private key, my-ssh-key, and a public key, my-ssh-key.pub.Īfter generating a new key, you need to add the public key to the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, OpenSSH: open cmd.exe or PowerShell, and type command ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f my-ssh-key.PuTTY: use the GUI program PuTTYgen to generate an SSH key.You can generate an SSH key with PuTTY or OpenSSH.

To allow the use of RSA / DSA key files with FileZilla, you'll need to download two more tools from PuTTY: Pageant and (assuming your key file isn't already in PPK format) PuTTYgen.įileZilla can use an existing SSH key, but it cannot generate the SSH key itself.

1.2 Using the SSH key with PuTTY's SSH agent.1 SFTP using SSH-2: Key based authentication.
