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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. | ||
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