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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
@Ruskie_it: If you want to a cross-platform *private* key, then, yeah, you'll probably have to convert at one point, but the public key is, obviously, cross-platform  .
If you only ever use PuTTY, then it's self-sufficient . On the other hand, If you want to use the same private key with PuTTY and OpenSSH/dropbear (client), then, yeah, you'll have to convert it. |
Oh, of course, I never digged into that as I use it only as a tool: in my early days they told me I needed a specific key to connect and I've always used that. But of course you are right; I guess if one uses puttygen to generate keypairs he gets a ppk private key and a standard public key; then it's just a matter of copying the public key to the Kindle as per ixtab's instruction and it should work.
Should give a try when I get home tonight (I would right now, but I am at a customer's, playing with the kindle wouldn't be good :-P)