generating ssh keys on windows

In order to do some testing on a Windows machine, I needed to interface with Github/Bitbucket and wanted to use SSH to pull my code from the online repos. To do that, I first needed to create ssh keys. I found puttygen is the easiest way to do this. But make sure you: save the public and private keys in a directory under c:\users\ (or wherever your home directory is) save the private key as id_rsa when you save the private key use the Conversion option in the toolbar and choose Export OpenSSH…Read more …