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- Generate Public Private Key Windows
- 1SFTP using SSH2: Key based authentication
- 1.2Using ssh key with putty's ssh agent
To generate private (d,n) key using openssl you can use the following command: openssl genrsa -out private.pem 1024 To generate public (e,n) key from the private key using openssl you can use the following command: openssl rsa -in private.pem -out public.pem -pubout. Nov 10, 2011 Your public and private SSH key should now be generated. Open the file manager and navigate to the.ssh directory. You should see two files: idrsa and idrsa.pub. After generate new key, you need to add the public key to the file /.ssh/authorizedkeys, or concact the system admin, then you can login with private key. Using ssh key with putty's ssh agent If your key file is already in PuTTY's PPK format you can skip this paragraph.
SFTP using SSH2: Key based authentication
There are three mechanisms for use of the FileZilla client with SSH2 keys.
- In the profile settings in the Site Manager of the FileZilla client. If the SFTP Protocol is specified, it is possible to specify the Logon Type as 'Key File' and specify the location of the private key file (in putty's .ppk or openssh's .pem format) The user is prompted for the key file's password if necessary, which may optionally be cached by Filezilla until it is next shut down.
- In the Edit - Settings menu of the FileZilla client, you can [Add key file...] under Connection - SFTP, and FileZilla can then use the public key authentication in the site manager with the 'Interactive' Logontype on connection. Note: Importing a site's public key is not supported.
- (Windows only) Using the excellent PuTTY tools. To allow the use of RSA / DSA key files with Filezilla, you'll need to download two more tools from PuTTY: Pageant and (assuming your key file isn't already in PPK format) PuTTYgen.
generate ssh key
Filezilla can use existing ssh key, but cannot generate ssh key itself.you can generate ssh key with putty or openssh. (now openssh is built-in in windows.)
- putty: use GUI program PuTTYgen to generate ssh key.
- openssh: open cmd.exe or powershell, type command
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f my-ssh-key
will generate private keymy-ssh-key
and public keymy-ssh-key.pub
.
after generate new key, you need to add the public key to the file
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
,or concact the system admin, then you can login with private key.Using ssh key with putty's ssh agent
If your key file is already in PuTTY's PPK format you can skip this paragraph. However if your key is in OpenSSH format, you first need to convert it to PuTTY's PPK format. To do this, launch PuTTYgen and from the 'Conversions' menu, select the 'Import key' option. Select your key and follow the prompts to enter your pass phrase. Save your private key.
Now run Pageant. In your system tray, you'll see the Pageant icon appear. Right-click the icon and select 'Add Key' and select your private key (PPK) file. Follow the prompt to enter your pass phrase and you're done.
Now simply launch FileZilla and connect to your server using SFTP using SSH2 with a username and an empty password. Don't forget to close pageant when you're done.
This also works with the portable versions of FileZilla and PuTTY tools.
Alternative Method
FileZilla supports the standard SSH agents. If your SSH agent is running, the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable should be set. (Note, the 'Normal' logon type should be set for the server in order to use the SSH agent socket.)
On a Mac
If for some reason you are not using ssh-agent and on a Mac, don't worry about ssh key conversion. Just import your key via Settings and then use Normal mode in your site connection definition. The imported key will get used.
The following instructions assume you have a working SSH configuration which allows you to ssh to the same host without a password. They are adapted from a thread on superuser.com and summarized here so you don't have to search through a lot of dead ends:
- In FileZilla->Settings.. select Connection->SFTP
- Press the Add key file... button
- Press Command-Shift-G to bring up a path selection window and type '~/.ssh'
- Select the 'id_rsa' key file and click Open (this imports the key)
- Click OK to close the Settings dialog
- Open File->Site Manager...
- Select the site with which you want to use the key
- Choose Protocol 'SFTP' and select Logon Type 'Normal'. Don't worry about a password if you key file doesn't have a password
- Click Connect and you'll see your files
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< Cryptography
Download and install the OpenSSL runtimes. If you are running Windows, grab the Cygwin package.
OpenSSL can generate several kinds of public/private keypairs.RSA is the most common kind of keypair generation.[1]
Other popular ways of generating RSA public key / private key pairs include PuTTYgen and ssh-keygen.[2][3]
Generate an RSA keypair with a 2048 bit private key[edit]
Execute command: 'openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out private_key.pem -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048'[4] (previously “openssl genrsa -out private_key.pem 2048”)
e.g.
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Make sure to prevent other users from reading your key by executing chmod go-r private_key.pem afterward.
Extracting the public key from an RSA keypair[edit]
Execute command: 'openssl rsa -pubout -in private_key.pem -out public_key.pem'
e.g.
A new file is created, public_key.pem, with the public key.
It is relatively easy to do some cryptographic calculations to calculate the public key from the prime1 and prime2 values in the public key file.However, OpenSSL has already pre-calculated the public key and stored it in the private key file.So this command doesn't actually do any cryptographic calculation -- it merely copies the public key bytes out of the file and writes the Base64 PEM encoded version of those bytes into the output public key file.[5]
Viewing the key elements[edit]
Execute command: 'openssl rsa -text -in private_key.pem'
All parts of private_key.pem are printed to the screen. This includes the modulus (also referred to as public key and n), public exponent (also referred to as e and exponent; default value is 0x010001), private exponent, and primes used to create keys (prime1, also called p, and prime2, also called q), a few other variables used to perform RSA operations faster, and the Base64 PEM encoded version of all that data.[6](The Base64 PEM encoded version of all that data is identical to the private_key.pem file).
Password-less login[edit]
Often a person will set up an automated backup process that periodically backs up all the content on one 'working' computer onto some other 'backup' computer.
Because that person wants this process to run every night, even if no human is anywhere near either one of these computers, using a 'password-protected' private key won't work -- that person wants the backup to proceed right away, not wait until some human walks by and types in the password to unlock the private key.Many of these people generate 'a private key with no password'.[7]Some of these people, instead, generate a private key with a password,and then somehow type in that password to 'unlock' the private key every time the server reboots so that automated toolscan make use of the password-protected keys.[8][3]
Further reading[edit]
- ↑Key Generation
- ↑Michael Stahnke.'Pro OpenSSH'.p. 247.
- ↑ ab'SourceForge.net Documentation: SSH Key Overview'
- ↑'genpkey(1) - Linux man page'
- ↑'Public – Private key encryption using OpenSSL'
- ↑'OpenSSL 1024 bit RSA Private Key Breakdown'
- ↑'DreamHost: Personal Backup'.
- ↑Troy Johnson.'Using Rsync and SSH: Keys, Validating, and Automation'.
- Internet_Technologies/SSH describes how to use 'ssh-keygen' and 'ssh-copy-id' on your local machine so you can quickly and securely ssh from your local machine to a remote host.
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