As well as offering additional security, SSH key authentication can be more convenient than the more traditional password authentication. When used with a program known as an SSH agent such as PuTTY, SSH keys can allow you to connect to a server, or multiple servers, without having to remember or enter your password for each system. Sep 16, 2014  This is how you would create a SSH Keys under Windows XP/7/8. Download puttygen.exe and launch it. Then start to generate the keys. May 05, 2019  To generate an SSH key pair on Windows using PuTTYgen perform the following steps: Start the PuTTYgen tool, by double-clicking on its.exe file or going to the Windows Start menu → PuTTY (64-bit) → PuTTYgen. For “Type of key to generate” leave the default RSA. Generate keys. In Windows, use PuTTYgen to generate your public and private keys. If needed, download PuTTYgen from the PuTTY download page. (PuTTYgen might have been installed previously with PuTTY or WinSCP.) Launch the program, and then click the Generate button. The program generates the keys for you. Enter a unique key passphrase in the Key passphrase and Confirm passphrase fields. To generate the public/private key pair, enter this in the Command Prompt: ssh-keygen At the first prompt, “Enter file in which to save the key,” press Enter to save it in the default location.

• Create Ssh Key Windows 10

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.

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.

Requirements

All you need is a PC running Windows 10 and either of the following installed:

• The puttygen.exe executable from PuTTY

Create Ssh Key Windows 10

If you don’t already have Ubuntu on Windows, take a look at our Install Ubuntu on Windows 10 tutorial.