Installing and running ascp
is a PITA.
Here's the private key you need (at least for NCBI/ENA downloads).
ascp
is now available in a Docker container. This makes things easier.
Do this:
# We need the not-actually-secret private key that comes packaged with Aspera Connect but is inexplicably not used as the default
# when no key is specified. Here's one I prepared earlier.