Is there an inbuilt C# mechanism to convert PEM files to PPK files? (you may guess that Amazon EC2 gives me a PEM file, and I need to use the PPK format for SSH connectivity).
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A:
A PEM file is an X.509 certificate in Base64 format.
A PPK file is an SSH RSA key.
You can't convert between the two because they're actually different authentication methods.
Use Putty-CAC, which supports X.509 certificate authentication.
Borealid
2010-07-06 22:23:41
PEM is the format of wrapping some block of data. It's used to armor PGP keys as well as keep SSH private keys.
Eugene Mayevski 'EldoS Corp
2010-07-07 07:52:03
A:
If you don't find a solution, take an evaluation version of our SecureBlackbox product and perform conversion using it's classes ( you can do this with evaluation version).
Eugene Mayevski 'EldoS Corp
2010-07-07 07:53:10