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Unix-based systems such as OS X and Linux distributions come with at least the client version of OpenSSH pre-installed. Windows is different — see below.


Manual Key Generation: ssh-keygen

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You can also do this on per user basis with an ssh config file $HOME/.ssh/config

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On Windows, download and run the PuTTY MSI installer; if you cannot run the installer on your PC, you can simply download the .ziparchive. This gives you PuTTY, pscp, psftp, PuTTYgen, and pageant (you do not need PuTTYtel).

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