On 7/7/20 8:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
What benefit is there in each product's having its own idea of where
the key files are?
PuTTY has has it's own key file location, and format, for many years.
For quite a long time it was the predominant SSH client on Windows, thus
things modeled off of it.
Then when OpenSSH came to being on Windows, it used the same format and
location as it does on other platforms, to be consistent with itself.
Thus you end up with these two different, incompatible, formats in
different locations.
Thankfully there are ways to convert between them.
Also, if you think SSH keys are bad, you should look at SSL / TLS
certificate stores.
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