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From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Subject:	Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd
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Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!

>>>> I believe that PuTTy is SSH2, while Cygwin is OpenSSH.
>> PuTTY using it's own format for SSH2 keys. As explained in help file.
> That's another thing about these one offs - they invent there own ways 
> of doing things making them different and not compatible with already 
> established ways - i.e. the "not playing well together" part. (Though 
> granted there is no standard for ssh2 keys, it doesn't necessarily mean 
> they should go off an invent yet another way...)

There's no established way to store both keys in the same file. PuTTY's .ppk
container is, by far, a combination of ssh.com's public and private key blocks
concatenated into a single file.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 23.01.2012, <23:35>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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