When the progress bar is full, PuTTYgen generates your key pair.

Move your mouse in the area below the progress bar.

For Type of key to generate, select SSH-2 RSA.

To generate an SSH key with PuTTYgen, follow these steps: For more information on PuTTY, see the PuTTY documentation This page gives you basic information about using PuTTY and PuTTYgen to log in to your provisioned machine. PuTTYgen is what you will use to generate your SSH key for a Windows VM. You can download PuTTY from When you install the PuTTY client, you also install the PuTTYgen utility. PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows that you will use to generate your SSH keys. This section shows you how to manually generate and upload an SSH key when working with PuTTY in the Windows environment.

PuTTY is a free open-source terminal emulator that functions much like the Terminal application in macOS in a Windows environment. DSA keys will work only if the private key is on the same system as the CLI, and not password-protected. Joyent recommends RSA keys because the node-manta CLI programs work with RSA keys both locally and with the ssh agent. This document explains how to use two SSH applications, PuTTY and Git Bash. On Windows, you can create SSH keys in many ways.

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