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Invalid ssh public key

Trying to follow github instructions for creating ssh keys for windows.

I ran ssh-keygen -t rsa -C " my@email.com " , enter the passphrase, and it looks like the SSH key is configured correctly.

However, when I try to "Add an SSH key" on GitHub, this gives me an error

Invalid key. It should start with "ssh-rsa" or "ssh-dss". Make sure you copy the public half of the key

The public key created by Windows is as follows:

 ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- Comment: "2048-bit RSA, my@email.com " *public key* ---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

First of all, it does not start with 'ssh-rsa' or 'ssh-dss'. I tried to just copy the *public key* and add 'ssh-rsa' to it, but I get the same error on GitHub. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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Got it. The public key should look like this:

 ssh-rsa *public key* my@email.com

I.e:

 ssh-rsa<space><public key ending with ==><space><email address>
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On Linux, after executing the above command (xyz.pub), the file will be generated in the directory in which you are working. Then, if you make " cat xyz.pub ", you will get your public key, which has "ssh-rsa" at the beginning. This is how it looks like Now you need to copy the pasted text into your GitHub account. Hope this probably solves the problem. And in windows, I think you should edit the file in NotePad ++

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GitHub generates two files: one without type and one .pub. You will need the second with the extension .pub , this file will already have a template:

ssh-rsa <key> <email>

If it does not have this template, you can look at the wrong file.

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