Re: Git in RDi 9.6.0.11

Looking around it appears that the RDI/Eclipse "Key Management" screen only works with RSA-1024 keys.
Not to worry though, you can still use stronger keys.


I tested a few different types of keys and removed all the Authentication Methods but publickey.
As a result I was able to get this exception:

An error occurred loading the SSH2 private keys
com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: invalid privatekey


Which lead me to this post:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/55740276/1958881


Turns out JSch does not support the "OPENSSH" format for the private key:
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----


Open your private key and check the header.
RDI/Eclipse uses JSch for the ssh processing.
So to get it to work you need to generate the key in the old format:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----


I was able to generate a new private key on Windows 10 using

ssh-keygen -m pem


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Chris Hiebert
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