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Scratching your head on why keys should be generated by users? Think passwords. Any enterprise grade environment will ask you to define your own password. Your password is then hashed and never revealed to the Administrator. In the case where an Administrator sets your initial password, the password will be "one time" where the system will prompt you to set a new password upon successful authentication. |
There are many variations of keys you can generate but currently industry standard is below,
Encryption Key Type = RSA
Key Length = 2048
With a Unix based system, this can be accomplished with the command line (below). Windows does not have a native way of doing this, but most Windows ssh client programs will provide a means of key generation.
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