Xamarin Mac Host SSH Connection

xamarin-host-ssh.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import paramiko
import base64

# Run in /mnt/c/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Xamarin/MonoTouch
# Unfortunately this does NOT work yet, as I do not understand the passphrase.key 
# file contents entirely (it appears to be bytes inside the base64 encoded string)
# and how to use it as the SSH key. 

with open("passphrase.key", 'r') as file:
    passphrase = base64.b64decode(file.read())

k = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key_file("id_rsa", password=passphrase)
c = paramiko.SSHClient()
c.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

print "connecting"

c.connect( hostname = "<target>", username = "<username>", pkey = k )
print "connected"

commands = [ "uname -a", "whoami" ]
for command in commands:
        print "Executing {}".format( command )
        stdin , stdout, stderr = c.exec_command(command)
        print stdout.read()
        print( "Errors")
        print stderr.read()
c.close()