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An RSA key for use with the SSH-2 protocol.An RSA key for use with the SSH-1 protocol.PuTTYgen currently supports these types of key: Now you’re ready to save the private key to disk press the ‘Save private key’ button.īefore generating a key pair using PuTTYgen, you need to select which type of key you need.Once you have generated the key, select a comment field and a passphrase.Then press the ‘Generate’ button, to actually generate the key.

First, you need to select which type of key you want to generate, and also select the strength of the key.

When you run PuTTYgen you will see a window where you have two choices: ‘Generate’, to generate a new public/private key pair, or ‘Load’ to load in an existing private key. PuTTYgen generates RSA, DSA, ECDSA, and Ed25519 keys. It generates pairs of public and private keys to be used with PuTTY, PSCP, and Plink, as well as the PuTTY authentication agent, Pageant.

Yes, PuTTYgen is safe to download and install on Windows 11, 10.