dropbearconvert(1)          General Commands Manual         dropbearconvert(1)

NAME
       dropbearconvert - convert between Dropbear and OpenSSH private key
       formats

SYNOPSIS
       dropbearconvert input_type output_type input_file output_file

DESCRIPTION
       Dropbear and OpenSSH SSH implementations have different private key
       formats.  dropbearconvert can convert between the two.

       Dropbear uses the same SSH public key format as OpenSSH, it can be
       extracted from a private key by using dropbearkey -y

       Encrypted private keys are not supported, use ssh-keygen(1) to decrypt
       them first.

ARGUMENTS
       input_type
              Either dropbear or openssh

       output_type
              Either dropbear or openssh

       input_file
              An existing Dropbear or OpenSSH private key file

       output_file
              The path to write the converted private key file. For client
              authentication ~/.ssh/id_dropbear is loaded by default

SUPPORTED FORMATS
       dropbearconvert can read OpenSSH format files, and older PEM format
       files ( ssh-keygen -m PEM ).  dropbearconvert will write OpenSSH format
       files, usable with OpenSSH 6.5 and later.  Reading OpenSSH format DSS
       files or PKCS8 files is not currently supported.

EXAMPLE
        # dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_dropbear

AUTHOR
       Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au).

SEE ALSO
        dropbearkey(1), ssh-keygen(1)

       https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html

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