Putty and SECURECRT public key mutual transfer

Questions and Answers

Q: There are usually two files in this directory of SSH: Id_rsa, id_rsa.pub. But sometimes there is a *.PPK file. What is the relationship between this PPK file and the previous two files. Why are there some places that use the. ppk suffix.

A: Id_rsa is the private key of SSH, Id_rsa.pub is the corresponding public key, the above two is the format of OpenSSH, thePPK file contains both the public and private keys, more common in the Putty client. Id_rsa and PPK files can be turned to each other, you can open the look, are plain text, the difference is not small. convert the Privatekey generated by putty to SecureCRT required PublicKey

Step: Open Putty key Generator, click the "Load" button, and then select the previously generated private key; After the load succeeds, select "Conversions", "Export OpenSSH Key" in the menu, and then the Save File dialog box will appear. Choose a name you need, such as "Openssh-key" (Note: This step saves the file name can not have any suffix, according to the original author, if using a public key file such as Openssh-key.pub, then SECURECRT will look in the same directory under the name " Openssh-key "of the private key. ); At this time securecrt can log on successfully using the Openssh-key file without the suffix above, and, according to the original author, it needs to be saved again as a file named "Openssh-key.pub" (that is, a more pub suffix), at which time you can use the Openssh-key.pub "In the securecrt login, (I can use the 4th step, but the insurance is still the original author of the 5th step out for the reference of the required person); convert PublicKey to PPK

Step: Conversions->import key; save private key with no passwd; Read the original |  Author's website |  Public number |  Feed |  Subscribe | Send private messages