Generating a Secure Shell (SSH) Public/Private Key Pair Generating an SSH Key Pair on Windows Using the PuTTYgen Program The PuTTYgen program is part of PuTTY, an open source networking client for the Windows platform. Generating a set of RSA keys with PuTTYgen to securely access CloudSigma’s cloud: Start PuTTYgen. Click the Generate button. Move your mouse pointer around randomly in the blank area of the Key section below the progress bar until the progress bar is full.

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• I am using PuTTY to access my ownCloud server. I can login using userID and password fine. But when I try to login using the public/private keys I generated, I get 'Server refused our key' message.
• Nov 15, 2017  In this video, I show you how to setup SSH Keys in Windows with PuttyGen. This allows you to connect to your linux server without having to authenticate with a password. I hope you guys Enjoy.

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

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