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Prerequisites for generating SSH keys on Windows

Creating SSH keys on Windows

  1. Download OpenSSH for Windows and install it.
  2. Setup the environment variables needed to run the SSH Agent by opening a command line shell, and running ssh-agent -s. This will output 2 environment variables that you can set by running set SSH_AUTH_SOCK=value_here and set SSH_AGENT_PID=value_here.
  3. In the command line shell, run ssh-agent to start the SSH Agent.
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