[nycbug-talk] generating keys with filezilla, winscp and putty

[George Georgalis]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:46:04AM -0500, Daniel Krook wrote:
>> Can anyone provide to links documentation on how users can generate
>> dsa key pairs with any (and all) of filezilla, winscp and putty?
>
>
>You'll need at least the following four tools from the PuTTY download 
>page, PuTTY, Pageant, Plink, and PuTTYgen:
>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
>
>PuTTYgen is the key generation tool.
>Plink is the command line engine behind the PuTTY interface for SSH.
>Pageant manages your keys on the client.
>
>The docs page has most of the detailed set up information:
>http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.56/htmldoc/
>
>Section III of this guide may or may not be helpful as a summary of the 
>steps involved.
>http://krook.net/os/eclipse-cvs-setup.txt


For winscp, it looks like PuTTYgen and Pageant are required and Pageant
is going to work like ssh-agent (and I don't have to invoke it before I
"startx"), am I reading this correct?

http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/docs/requirements?s=key#server_requirements

I looks like winscp uses Pageant automagically, I wonder if filezilla does too?

// George


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