RE: need help with public keys

From: Kim, Anthony <anthony.kim(at)vw.com>
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 14:52:38 EST

You are probably giving them an OpenSSH format public key and they probably want the SSH2-compatible or SECSH public key format.

OpenSSH public keys are one line keys.

Those other key formats look like your OpenSSH private key having BEGIN and END blocks.

I can't test this, but try sending this:

ssh-keygen -e -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > public.key

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From: Thorsten Hofrichter [mailto:thofrichter@na.ko.com] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 6:13 AM
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Subject: need help with public keys

I am new to this group . So hello to all , and thanks in advance for any help you can provide .
I am trying to exchange public keys with another company so we can do transfers yet , when I send them my id_rsa.pub they say they format is wrong, I look at my private key and that is the kind of format they want. My public key just has :
RSA nowscrambled text.

Any ideas would be great as there is a lot of pressure to get this done. Thorsten Hofrichter
The Coca-Cola Company
Infrastructure and Support Team
Phone: 404-676-2240
Email: thofrichter@na.ko.com

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Received on Wed Dec 25 02:29:42 2002