I have to access a lot of server remotely and for this I am using public/private key authentication. This means basically that I have a key pair, consisting of public and private key, on my computers that identifies me. If I need access to a remote machine I send my public key to the administrator… Continue reading Securing your private keys and preventing others from using them
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Generating a less problematic public/private key file
To use this tutorial OpenSSH has to be installed on Windows. This can be easily done with the following command. To execute it, PowerShell has to be started as administrator: I had problems with key files in the OpenSSH format: These files are created when using the plain “ssh-keygen” command: I was, for example, not… Continue reading Generating a less problematic public/private key file