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--- ssh_key_help [2016/12/12 10:11] – [SSH key creation procedure] onicolas
+++ ssh_key_help [2016/12/12 10:24] (current) – [Windows] onicolas
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-The part in braces '[ ]' is optional and omitting it will generate key files at the default placement ($HOME/.ssh/). If you wish to generate the keys at a different place other than the default one, replace the value of `output_keyfile` with the desired destination path for the newly created key pair. Two files will be created at the destination path:
+The part in braces '[ ]' is optional and omitting it will generate key files at the default location ($HOME/.ssh/). If you wish to generate the keys at a different location, replace the value of `output_keyfile` with the desired destination path for the newly created key pair. Two files will be created:
 . The public key will have the *.pub* extension. This **is** the key that you will send us.
 . The private key should **never** be sent to anyone, even us, and remain secret.
-You can get more info about the `ssh-keygen` command in the **manpage** (which can be found [there](http://www.delafond.org/traducmanfr/man/man1/ssh-keygen.1.html) for instance).
+You can get more info about the `ssh-keygen` command in the **manpage** (which can be found [here](http://www.delafond.org/traducmanfr/man/man1/ssh-keygen.1.html) for instance).
 ## Windows
-The SSH key generation can be a little bit more difficult on MS Windows, espacialy if you're not used to the quite crude Putty tool suite. Indeed, you need to use the Puttygen tool to generate a SSH key pair.
+The SSH key generation can be a little bit more difficult on MS Windows, especially if you're not used to the quite crude Putty tool suite. Indeed, you need to use the Puttygen tool to generate a SSH key pair.
 You can get Putty (the SSH client) and Puttygen (the key generation tool) from the author's [website](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html).
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-You should end up with two files, a public and a private keys:
+You should end up with two files, a public and a private key:
 . The public key will have the *.pub* extension. This **is** the key that you will send us.