If you're using Windows, you can generate the keys on your server. Just remember to copy your keys to your laptop and delete your private key from the server after you've generated it. To generate an SSH key pair, run the command ssh-keygen. It will look like this when you run it: laptop1: yourname$ ssh-keygen Generating public. Quick steps: Create and use an SSH public-private key pair for Linux VMs in Azure.; 4 minutes to read +4; In this article. With a secure shell (SSH) key pair, you can create virtual machines (VMs) in Azure that use SSH keys for authentication, eliminating the need for passwords to sign in.
I was recently in a meeting where a person needed to generate a private andpublic key for RSA encryption, but they were using a PC (Windows). This is somethingthat is easily done via a terminal using ssh-keygen on Mac and Linux, however on Windows…this tool is not easily accessible to the non-technical person.
It then occurred to me (and a head slapped followed), that I have fairly recentlypublished a library for Javascript RSA encryption which includes private andpublic key generation for RSA encryption. Not only that, but this is allavailable online.
So, if anyone needs an online RSA key generator, look no further than http://travistidwell.com/jsencrypt/demo.
This directly maps to the Open Source GitHub repository found at https://github.com/travist/jsencrypt, soanyone can modify this website to make it better.
And here is an iframe of the RSA key generation tool.
One of the most common forms of cryptography today is public-key cryptography helps to communicate two system by encrypting information using the public key and information can be decrypted using private key. These keys are using mainly on login to server securely and also transferring data securely.
We can generate these private public keys by various ways.
1) By using openssl.
with password encryption
Generate public key:
2) By using ssh keygen
3) using putty-gen for windows.
Download puttyGen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html and run it.
You can select one of the key types, SSH-1, SSH-2, and SSH-2 DSA.
SSH-2 is probably better than others but you have to make sure if your system supports SSH-2, if your system ( server) doesnt support it then you better off with SSH-1.
Level of encryption can be set from “Number of bits in a generated key” . Security level can be enhance by using 2048 but again make sure where you are using it and thus follow the recommendation for this value. I prefer 2048 but even with 1024 is much more secure.
Click on generate to create keys. Move your mouse over the empty space to help puttygen to genereate random variables.
Once the key is generated you will see following window.
Generate Ssh Public Key And Private Key Pem Drive
If you want to login without password ( in case of ssh login) you can put your passphase empty. click on Save Public key and Save private key to save your keys.
When you save private key it will be saved in ppk format which you can use putty to login to your system.
We can get private key for openSSH by clicking on Conversions->Export OpenSSH key
If you want to use ssh to login with these generated key / pair then
copy public key ( mykey.pub) to .ssh/authorized_key.