Use PuTTYGen Creating and Using SSH Keys Overview vCloud Express now has the ability to create SSH Keys for Linux servers. This function will allow the user to create multiple custom keys by selecting the “My Account/Key Management” option. Once the key has been created the user will be required to select the desired SSH Key … Read more
“Enter PEM pass phrase” because openssl doesn’t want to output private key in clear text. The password is used to output encrypted private key Below command can be used to output private key in clear text. No password is then asked.
You can use the OpenSSL Command line tool. The following commands should do the trick If you want your file to be password protected etc, then there are additional options. You can read the entire documentation here.
You can do this conversion with the OpenSSL library. Windows binaries can be found here. Once you have the library installed, the command you need to issue is: