You can also set the value of number of bits for the generated key. You have three options here: SSH-1 (RSA), SSH-2 (RSA), SSH-2 DSA. Parameters Section: Here you’ll specify the type of key to generate. Initially the save buttons will be disabled, as we have not loaded a key yet. Save – Once you’ve generated a new key, or loaded an existing key, you can save either the public-key or the private-key to your local machine.Load – If you already have an existing private key, you can use that by loading it here.Generate – This will let you generate a brand new public/private key pair.

When you first launch the puttygen, this section will say “No Key”.Īctions Section: This section will display all the possible actions that you can perform inside PuTTYGen. i.e The key that you are currently working on. Key Section: This will display the current key that is loaded. The main PuTTYGen screen will have the following three sections: But, in our case, we’ll be using this to convert the pem to ppk file. PuTTYGen is a RSA and DSA key generation utility. Launch PuTTYgen by double clicking on it.

If you are already using only putty.exe as a standalone, then you can also download the standalone puttygen.exe If you’ve used the PuTTY MSI installer, then all the PuTTY utilities comes with it including puttygen. ppk to login to EC2 instance using PuTTY.īTW, the steps to convert pem to ppk for putty is exactly the same for all the Linux AMI images, including CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, Amazon Linux, etc. We’ll be converting this thegeekstuff.pem file to thegeekstuff.ppk and use the. pem file I have is called thegeekstuff.pem, which is under C drive.

Ssh pem format