{"id":2757,"date":"2020-02-05T01:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/?page_id=2757"},"modified":"2020-02-08T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T14:26:10","slug":"ssh-key-generation-winscp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/?page_id=2757","title":{"rendered":"SSH key generation WinSCP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WinSCP SFTP client<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WinSCP is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows! The perfect tool to copy files between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols, we&#8217;ve covered <strong>WinSCP <\/strong>in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this article (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"\/winscp\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WinSCP comes with puttygen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Having learnt how to generate SSH keys on <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"\/ssh-key-generation-securecrt\/\" target=\"_blank\">SecureCRT <\/a><\/strong>and also <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"\/ssh-key-generation-putty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Putty<\/a><\/strong>, it is now the turn of <strong>WinSCP<\/strong>, and because WinSCP comes with &#8220;puttygen&#8221; included between its tools, half of the job is already done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to open puttygen?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following animation shows the steps you must follow to open &#8220;puttygen&#8221; from WinSCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2762\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step by step screenshots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And for those of you who prefer to see each step in detail, here you are the screenshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-01.jpg 711w, https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-01-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>WinSCP open new session<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-02.jpg 741w, https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-02-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>WinSCP new sessions available tools<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-03.jpg 732w, https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-03-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Puttygen was launched<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-04.jpg 729w, https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/generating-ssh-pub-and-priv-keys-with-winscp-04-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Puttygen saving SSH keys<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where to go next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you have the SSH keys it\u2019s time to start using them, in order to achieve that goal you must complete the following two steps, only once, only the first time, after that you can just open the session as usual and after entering the \u201cpassphrase\u201d you\u2019ll logged into your remote device in no time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/copy-ssh-public-key-to-remote-server\/\">How to copy the Public SSH key to the remote computer\/server<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/linux\/ssh-private-key\/map-private-ssh-key-to-a-winscp-session\/\">How to map the Private SSH Key on an new WinSCP session<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WinSCP SFTP client WinSCP is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows! The perfect tool to copy files between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols, we&#8217;ve covered WinSCP in this article. WinSCP comes with puttygen Having learnt how to generate SSH &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/?page_id=2757\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SSH key generation WinSCP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2757\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}