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Prerequisites for generating SSH keys on Windows
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Creating SSH keys on Windows

  1. Download OpenSSH for Windows and install it.
  2. Setup the environment variables needed to run the SSH Agent by opening a command line shell, and running ssh-agent -s. This will output 2 environment variables that you can set by running set SSH_AUTH_SOCK=value_here and set SSH_AGENT_PID=value_here.
  3. In the command line shell, run ssh-agent to start the SSH Agent.
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