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May 18, 2004

Technology at 09:09:51 PM MT (link) | I now have a nice USB key disk with a bunch of SSH keys on it, for OpenSSH and PuTTY/WinSCP. This way, I can login to my machine at home without having to send a password over any network. It's proven pretty convenient so far; I keep a copy of the latest PuTTY and WinSCP binaries on the disk as well.

For the record, create a key with OpenSSH with a command like:

ssh-keygen -t dsa -f mykey.openssh-key -C "me@usbdisk (USB SSH key, 20040518)" -P "my passphrase"

The private key generated can then be loaded up into PuTTYgen and converted to a PuTTY PPK file.