[Techtalk] Help with SSH private/public key pair
Jenn Vesperman
jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au
Sat Jan 12 19:55:52 EST 2002
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 12:31, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've generated a private/public key pair for use with ssh, using the
> ssh-keygen program. The output informed me it was an RSA1 type key.
>
You're aware that there are both 'ssh1' and 'ssh2' formats? I always get
caught out by using the wrong format - and I always have to check the
man page (or my husband) to figure out how to get the other format.
Jenn V.
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