Create a shortcut to unlock your private key when you log into Windows When this has been done you can proceed to the next step.

Close this program and wait for me to install the public key on my server.

Press Alt+P and Ctrl+C to copy the public key in OpenSSH format, paste this string (using Ctrl+V) into an e-mail and send this e-mail to me.

host-fqdn.ppk (the name is entirely up to you but the remaining instructions refer to this file name and you'll need to replace occurrences of this name with the name you choose here).

Click Save private key, navigate to the folder putty-installation-directory and save your private key with the file name user-name.

Set Key passphrase and Confirm passphrase to a strong passphrase: this is used to protect the private key on your local machine and is never transmitted to the server: the private key file is locally encrypted with this passphrase so that if your computer is compromised, the private key can only be used by someone with knowledge of the passphrase.

This generates lots of nice cryptographically secure random numbers.

Wiggle your mouse over the window as per the instructions.In the Actions section, click Generate.Set Number of bits in a generated key to 2048.Set Type of key to generate to SSH-2 RSA.In the Parameters section of the main window:.In Windows Explorer, double-click on PUTTYGEN.EXE in the putty-installation-directory folder to launch PuTTY Key Generator.Extract the contents of putty.zip into this folder.

Create a new folder for the downloaded PuTTY binaries, e.g.

Locate the file in Windows Explorer in your Downloads folder.

Download PuTTY from the official web site.

Some of these steps are moderately involved, so please do follow the instructions as closely as possible. You will only need to perform the setup steps in this section once on your Windows client machine.

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