Use the generated Public and Private Keys with the Windows SSH Client

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You have downloaded the ZIP file and now want to use the generated keys with the Windows SSH client.

• Extract the downloaded zip file.
• In the extracted directory, you have 3 files

• got to the C:\Users\YourUsername\.ssh\ directory
• Copy the id_rsa.key to the C:\Users\YourUsername\.ssh\id_rsa
• Copy the id_rsa.pub to the C:\Users\YourUsername\.ssh\id_rsa.pub
• Using PowerShell type:

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0
Set-Service -Name ssh-agent -StartupType Automatic
Start-Service ssh-agent
ssh-add C:\Users\YourUsername\.ssh\id_rsa