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Merge in changes from the past couple of releases
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:38:01 +0800
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1 .TH dropbearconvert 1
2 .SH NAME
3 dropbearconvert \- convert between Dropbear and OpenSSH private key formats
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B dropbearconvert
6 .I input_type
7 .I output_type
8 .I input_file
9 .I output_file
10 .SH DESCRIPTION
11 .B Dropbear
12 and
13 .B OpenSSH
14 SSH implementations have different private key formats.
15 .B dropbearconvert
16 can convert between the two.
17 .P
18 Dropbear uses the same SSH public key format as OpenSSH, it can be extracted
19 from a private key by using
20 .B dropbearkey \-y
21 .P
22 Encrypted private keys are not supported, use ssh-keygen(1) to decrypt them
23 first.
24 .SH OPTIONS
25 .TP
26 .B input type
27 Either
28 .I dropbear
29 or
30 .I openssh
31 .TP
32 .B output type
33 Either
34 .I dropbear
35 or
36 .I openssh
37 .TP
38 .B input file
39 An existing Dropbear or OpenSSH private key file
40 .TP
41 .B output file
42 The path to write the converted private key file
43 .SH EXAMPLE
44 # dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/dropbear_priv
45 .SH AUTHOR
46 Matt Johnston ([email protected]).
47 .SH SEE ALSO
48 dropbearkey(1), ssh-keygen(1)
49 .P
50 https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html