Generate SSH Keys Locally

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2022-03-30

It’s often necessary to generate a SSH key. Here is how to do it from the terminal.

Just run:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C “your_email@example.com”

On a Mac, this will store the newly generated public and private keys in ~/.ssh.

You can copy the public key to the clipboard using:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub|pbcopy

See here for more info.

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