How To Convert Pem to Ppk File Using PuTTYgen in Windows

Steps to Convert PEM to PPK File Using PuTTY key generator using PuTTY key generator

• Download Putty & Install Putty:
• Open Putty & Select RSA in Parameters
• Load The PEM File
• Save The PPK File

How to Convert PEM to PPK File Using PuTTYkey generator 

To connect any remote Linux servers like amazon AWS ec2 instances from windows we need a PPK key file and putty. AWS or any cloud will provide you Pem key file but we need to convert that Pem key file into a PPK file. 

To convert the PEM key to the PPK file we use PuTTY key generator prerequisites to generate PPK key file from PEM key file is putty software. So install putty in windows machine. in the following steps, I will show you how to download and install putty in windows and how to convert the PEEMkey file to the PPK file using PuTTY keygen.

Download Putty & Install Putty:

Click on this link to convert PEM to PPK it will show you the links to download the putty software, download putty software will be like a putty-64bit-0.70-installer.msi file download this executable file and install it., after installing putty software you will get two programs on your windows machine those are.

• PuTTY key 

• PuTTY

putty is used to connect remote Linux machines or Linux servers. when you are connecting to a remote server. Putty will ask you PPK file so by using the PuTTY key we can convert PEM to a PPK file.

    step 1

Open Putty & Select RSA in Parameters

Open the PuTTY key generator in your windows machine here you can see different options in parameters like  RSA, DSA, ECDSA, ED25519, SHA-1(RSA) select RSA.

step 2

Load The PEM File

click on load and select all files then only you can see PEM file and click on open

      step 3

it will prompt like, successfully imported foreign key to use this key with putty you need to use the save private key command to save it in putty owns the format.

                                                                        

       step 4

Save The PPK File

click on ok then putty will show one window like below click on save private key

step 5

after you can see PuTTY key generator give you a warning like are you sure you want to save this key without a passphrase to protect it

                                     

                                                                              step 6

after you can see PuTTY key generator give you a warning like are you sure you want to save this key without a passphrase to protect it

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