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Generating a public/private RSA key pair.
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Generating RSA keys

On a Mac or other Unix-like system, locate your ~/.ssh directory and from that directory run this in the command line:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_comment"

-t = type (The possible values are 'dsa', 'ecdsa', 'ed25519', or 'rsa')

-b = bits

-C = comment

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