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A free and open implementation of the SSH communication security tools.

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Why did OpenSSH create its own key format, and not use PKCS#8?

The PEM handling code is nasty and OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL to do most of that heavy lifting. … Here are a few links to the technical details of the new format: The OpenSSH Private Key Format The OpenSSH private key binary format Annotated PROTOCOL.key …
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How can I convert an ED25519 key in PKCS#8 to OpenSSH private key format?

OpenSSH doesn't currently support reading or writing Ed25519 keys in any format other than the OpenSSH native key format. … PRIVATE KEY----- and there we go: the private key in OpenSSH format. …
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