Never underestimate how long a bad tutorial can float around: https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_generate_an_ssh_key_on_windows_using_putty/ https://www.site

Never underestimate how long a bad tutorial can float around: https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_generate_an_ssh_key_on_windows_using_putty/ https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_generate_an_ssh_key_on_... This site isn't where I first saw this. This isn't the top hit for any search term I can come up with, but it is often on the first page of hits. So people do silly things without understanding what they're doing. (To give somewhat of a feeling for age here, the exact wording from that tutorial is at least 5 years out of date. Putty changed the UI a bit in 0.68)