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how to add a ssh key on windows 11

Successful Starling answered on September 3, 2022 Popularity 8/10 Helpfulness 7/10

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how to add a ssh key on windows 11

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# Option 1 - Windows Terminal, Command Prompt or Powershell
# 2048-bit RSA key
ssh-keygen
yes
# Type a password or not. Please make a password. 
# GitHub Recommendations:
ssh-keygen -t ed25519.
# You will see you have two files in your “.ssh” folder: “id_rsa” with no file extension and “id_rsa.pub.” The latter is the key you upload to servers to authenticate while the former is the private key that you don’t share with others.

# Option 2 - Windows Subsystem For Linux
# Open up Windows Terminal or the built-in Ubuntu command prompt (assuming you installed Ubuntu Linux). Then it’s very similar to Windows. Unlike Windows, it’s best to specify whether you want an RSA key or something like Ed25519.
# Say you wanted to create an RSA-4096 key. You’d type in the following command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
# If you wanted Ed25519 then the recommended way is as follows:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your@email.address"
# It’s recommended to add your email address as an identifier, though you don’t have to do this on Windows since Microsoft’s version automatically uses your username and the name of your PC for this.
# Option 3 - Generate Keys With PuTTY

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