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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by majewsky on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:53AM (#15904870)
For one, it's plainly impossible to use an existing OpenSSH private key with PuTTY. You can convert PuTTY keys to the OpenSSH format with putty-keygen (or what it's called), but not the other way around. This antifeature alone cost me two hours recently.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by icebraining on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:04AM (#15904944)
You can convert PuTTY keys to the OpenSSH format with putty-keygen (or what it's called), but not the other way around.

Sure you can: https://devops.profitbricks.com/tutorials/use-ssh-keys-with-...

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by acqq on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:58AM (#15904902)
If I remember correctly it was possible before, is this something new?
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