The key passphrase isn't mandatory and can be skipped by leaving the field blank, but it will significantly reduce the security of your key pair. The passphrase will be required whenever you use the key. We recommend that you use your email address as the key comment. Once the key has been generated, fill in the Key comment and Key passphrase boxes. Do this until the progress bar is full and your key pair has been generated.ģ. You will then be prompted to move your cursor around in the blank key area to generate random data. Download both the Putty client (putty.exe) and the putty key generator (puttygen.exe).Ģ.Begin by downloading and installing Putty and it's related SSH key generation tool. This guide will show you how to use Putty to generate your SSH keys and connect to your AWS server.

If you have a key pair and you are certain that it is still secure, send the public key (.pub) file to Media Temple via your service portal.ġ.

This guide assumes that you do not already have key pairs. This article shows you how to generate and use SSH keys to connect to your AWS account managed by Media Temple. Using SSH keys greatly increases the security of your sites and applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses SSH keys to securely connect and exchange information between servers and clients.

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