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Generating SSH keys that will work with Arq
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Generating SSH keys with Arq

Tested with Arq 5.

I encountered some issues trying to add my existing SSH key pairs with Arq. I saw errors like:

[path to key]: Key 'OPENSSH' is not supported.

or

userauth publickey: Unable to extract public key from private key file: Wrong passphrase or invalid/unrecognized private key file format

or

DER length is '39' and cannot be more than 4 bytes

I found the following:

  • Arq only supports PEM-formatted keys
  • Arq does not support ed25519 keys (Arq uses libssh2 v1.7.x, ed25519 support is in libssh2 v1.8.x)

As such, generating keys a la

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -a 100 -m PEM

worked for me.

You might also see that last error (DER length...) if the password to your private key is incorrect.

On Windows

On Windows, I encountered this error:

Invalid data type, INTEGER(02) is expected

I think this error was caused by protecting my generated SSH keys with extended ASCII characters. Removing these characters from my password seemed fixed the issue for me.

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scfcode commented Oct 25, 2022

I forked this and updated for Arq 7 (I only tried for macOS BTW, and it worked).

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