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| grammar (martin) | removing not really correct section on user key pair (martin) | ||
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| Different file formats are used to store private keys. WinSCP supports PuTTY format, with ''.ppk'' extension. | Different file formats are used to store private keys. WinSCP supports PuTTY format, with ''.ppk'' extension. | ||
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| - | //Note that there's always a user key-pair involved, even when a password authentication method is used, when no key-pair seemingly exists. In this case an ad-hoc generated key-pair is used. Such key-pair is used for encryption only. It cannot be used for authentication, as the server does not recognize the matching public key. The password is used for authentication.// | ||
| ===== User Public Key ===== | ===== User Public Key ===== | ||