Create an SSH .pem Key File from a Putty .ppk Key File

Published on Christian Mayer's Weblog

  1. Install putty for puttygen tool:

     $ brew install putty

  2. Convert

     $ puttygen keyfile.ppk -O private-openssh -o keyfile.pem

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 Christian is a professional software developer living in Vienna, Austria. He loves coffee and is strongly addicted to music. In his spare time he writes open source software. He is known for developing automatic data processing systems on Debian Linux server.

Categories: Productivity
Tags: SSH, Putty, Key, File, pem, ppk, OSX

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