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Does anybody know a way of either converting (on android) a putty key to something I can use in ConnectBot, or a good android SSH app that can use Putty keys natively?

I am away from home without my laptop, which I would usually use. I only have my android phone with me.

A few months ago I tried creating RSA key pairs to use with Putty on my laptop and ConnectBot but for some reason I just could not crack it so gave up. I also used puttygen to create an RSA key but it would not work on ConnectBot

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The best practice is that the device private key should never leave the device. One device, one key. A device is lost or compromised? Remove that device's key from your list.

I also use ConnectBot and importing a private key generated elsewhere never worked for me, so I generate directly in ConnectBot itself and add its public key to my server, which is what I should do anyway.