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If you want to further secure your hosting account, requiring an SSH key upon login is one of the best ways to do so.Setup for SFTP keys will differ depending on the FTP client you are using, but today we’ll go over how to activate additional security measures for your account via FileZilla. Jun 12, 2019 Step 2 – Add Key in Filezilla. Follow the given below screenshots to add primary key in filezilla. Go to Edit Menu and Click on Settings Submenu. Select SFTP under Connection and click Add key file. Select private key file. You Key file will be added in List. Now Just click OK. Some times Filezilla prompt to convert key in the case provided key is not in the correct format which Filezilla supports.
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In every SSH/SFTP connection there are four keys (or two key-pairs) involved. This article explains a difference between them and what keys an SFTP client user needs to care about.
Connect to server using SFTP and public ssh key using FileZilla on Windows. Is it possible to generate an ssh key on a windows machine then use that key to connect to a server using SFTP via FileZilla? My sftp server by using public key auth since FileZilla knows nothing about public key. Openssh server knows only about public key. Jan 18, 2019 In every SSH/SFTP connection there are four keys (or two key-pairs) involved. This article explains a difference between them and what keys an SFTP client user needs to care about. The SSH employs a public key cryptography.
The SSH employs a public key cryptography. A public-key cryptography, also known as asymmetric cryptography, is a class of cryptographic algorithms which requires two separate keys, one of which is secret (or private) and one of which is public.1 Together they are known as a key-pair. In SSH, the public key cryptography is used in both directions (client to server and server to client), so two key pairs are used. One key pair is known as a host (server) key, the other as a user (client) key.
A user private key is key that is kept secret by the SSH user on his/her client machine. The user must never reveal the private key to anyone, including the server (server administrator), not to compromise his/her identity.
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To protect the private key, it should be generated locally on a user’s machine (e.g. using PuTTYgen) and stored encrypted by a passphrase. The passphrase should be long enough (that’s why it’s called passphrase, not password) to withstand a brute-force attack for a reasonably long time, in case an attacker obtains the private key file.
Different file formats are used to store private keys. WinSCP supports PuTTY format, with
.ppk
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A user public key is a counterpart to user private key. They are generated at the same time. The user public key can be safely revealed to anyone, without compromising user identity.
To allow authorization of the user on a server, the user public key is registered on the server. In the most widespread SSH server implementation, the OpenSSH, file
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
is used for that.Learn more about public key authentication in general and how to setup authentication with public keys.
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A host private key is generated when the SSH server is set up. It is safely stored in a location that should be accessible by a server administrator only. The user connecting to the SSH server does not need to care about host private key in general.
A host public key is a counterpart to host private key. They are generated at the same time. The host public key can be safely revealed to anyone, without compromising host identity.
To allow authorizing the host to the user, the user should be provided with host public key in advance, before connecting. The client application typically prompts the user with host public key on the first connection to allow the user to verify/authorize the key. The host public key is then saved and verified automatically on further connections. The client application warns the user, if the host key changes.
- The text is partially copied from Wikipedia article on Public-key cryptography. The text is licensed under GNU Free Documentation License.Back
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This article explains public key authentication in general. You may want to see guide to setting up public key authentication instead.
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Do not confuse your user key pair used for authentication with host public key verification. Learn about all SSH key types.
Public key authentication is an alternative means of identifying yourself to a login server, instead of typing a password. It is more secure and more flexible, but more difficult to set up.
In conventional password authentication, you prove you are who you claim to be by proving that you know the correct password. The only way to prove you know the password is to tell the server what you think the password is. This means that if the server has been hacked, or spoofed, an attacker can learn your password.
Public key authentication solves this problem. You generate a key pair, consisting of a public key (which everybody is allowed to know) and a private key (which you keep secret and do not give to anybody). The private key is able to generate signatures. A signature created using your private key cannot be forged by anybody who does not have that key; but anybody who has your public key can verify that a particular signature is genuine.
So you generate a key pair on your own computer, and you copy the public key to the server under a certain name. Then, when the server asks you to prove who you are, WinSCP can generate a signature using your private key. The server can verify that signature (since it has your public key) and allow you to log in. Now if the server is hacked or spoofed, the attacker does not gain your private key or password; they only gain one signature. And signatures cannot be re-used, so they have gained nothing.
There is a problem with this: if your private key is stored unprotected on your own computer, then anybody who gains access to that will be able to generate signatures as if they were you. So they will be able to log in to your server under your account. For this reason, your private key is usually encrypted when it is stored on your local machine, using a passphrase of your choice. In order to generate a signature, WinSCP must decrypt the key, so you have to type your passphrase.
This can make public-key authentication less convenient than password authentication: every time you log in to the server, instead of typing a short password, you have to type a longer passphrase. One solution to this is to use an authentication agent, a separate program which holds decrypted private keys and generates signatures on request. WinSCP can use PuTTY’s authentication agent, called Pageant. When you begin a Windows session, you start Pageant and load your private key into it (typing your passphrase once). For the rest of your session, you can start WinSCP any number of times and Pageant will automatically generate signatures without you having to do anything. When you close your Windows session, Pageant shuts down, without ever having stored your decrypted private key on disk. Many people feel this is a good compromise between security and convenience.
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There is more than one public-key algorithm available. The most common are RSA and ECDSA, but others exist, notably DSA (otherwise known as DSS), the USA’s federal Digital Signature Standard.1
To generate a key pair, use the PuTTYgen application.
You can start PuTTYgen directly from Authentication page of Advanced Site Settings dialog. If you start PuTTYgen this way, WinSCP will automatically pick up the generated key.
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Different file formats are used to store SSH-2 private keys. WinSCP supports PuTTY format, as authors of PuTTY claim that it is the best one.
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WinSCP also recognizes (but does not accept) the other two formats (OpenSSH and ssh.com), and it can convert the keys to PuTTY format for you. To convert the key file you can also use
/keygen
command-line switch or PuTTYgen application.Filezilla Public Key Authentication
- The text is copy of PuTTY User Manual or was inspired by it.Back