tar.gz for linux/windows) : ī) Extract the files and compile the source code: “. Doing that is far from being a trivial task on Mojave, especially because, as this post suggests, ssh-keygen won’t let you convert it! The easiest solution I’ve found is:Ī) Download putty ( the. As a result, you may want to: convert the private key to the usual RSA – PEM format . Unfortunately, this format is not supported by all the tools one may need to interact with. Which it’s the new format for those keys. However, the posted key is not PEM encoded, it is missing header, footer and line breaks after every 64 characters. Such file can be easily imported and used by X509Certificate class as follows: C var clientCert X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile ( 'm圜ert.pem' ) That’s all. This is the most common and easiest format for secure text transfer.
After upgrading to MacOS X Mojave, I’ve found myself in the curious situation that creating a private key with the usual command: ssh-keygen, would output the private key in the format : -BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY- The posted key is an RSA key in X.509/SPKI format. This format is called PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail).