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 2. The private key should **never** be sent to anyone, even us, and remain secret. 2. 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 ## 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). 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:
  
 1. The public key will have the *.pub* extension. This **is** the key that you will send us. 1. The public key will have the *.pub* extension. This **is** the key that you will send us.
ssh_key_help.txt · Last modified: 2016/12/12 10:24 by onicolas

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