IT:AD:SSH:HowTo:Create a Public/Private Key Using Git Gui

BitBucket and Git both offer communication over HTTPS and SSH.

SSH is less chatty and more secure.

But before you can do that, you need to create a public/private key pair, and give the public key to Git/Bitbucket.

There are two ways of doing it.

• From the Git Bash/ shell, as described here: Private Key Using Git Bash
• From the Git Gui/ interface…which is easier, but doesn't show you what's going on.

Doing it manually is recommended.

On Windows:

• Install Git Extensions/ for windows:
  • https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/

On Windows:

• Start Git Extensions/'s Git GUI
• Click Help
• Click Show SSH Key

• It will show the public key (not the private key):

• Note that even if there are two keys, it will show the default id_* one (TODO:why?)

If there was no public/private id_* key (even if there is the github_ ones), you could easily have generated a new one:

It's useful to associate to each target, which key to use.

Not sure how this is done, if not done the manual way:

• IT:AD:SSH:HowTo:Configure the association between Host and Key

Easy enough:

• Start SSH Agent every time

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Set+up+SSH+for+Git
• http://www.jeremyskinner.co.uk/git-on-windows/