What about key management? Import from SD card just sits and waits forever. Generating key, how to get the public key out ? Looks promising though.

Just figured this out - to export a generated public key, you have to go to manage public keys then "right click" or hold down your finger over the key - a context menu will pop up which has a "copy public key" option - then you can paste it into a new document, e-mail message, etc. BTW, to paste, do the "right click" or hold your finger in a text area and "paste" shows up on the context menu.

So I use this to log in to my router and my system - and I also use Putty. I wanted to generate a public key pair with connectbot and use the private key therein generated in Putty.

The claim is that you can import private keys generated in other systems in Putty by putting they key in a file and then importing it.

I copied the key into a file using the cat > xxx.key and then I tried importing the file xxx.key. Putty consistently failed with, "Couldn't load private key. Unrecognized key type."

I note that the private key has a single header line --- BEGIN PRIVATE KEY --- and a corresponding ---- END PRIVATE KEY ---- with hex between the header and footer, while there is no interior header that further identifies the private key type or bits or whatever.

I just upgraded to Connectbot 1.6.2 and tried it again. The failure mode is the same. I verified that the key type and bit length matched from the import menu and the key menu in connectbot, and I tried it with both an RSA and a DSA key.

It would be convenient if I could export the keys I generate in connectbot so that I could use them in putty.

I suppose I could generate the keys in puttygen and then import them into the connectbot, but, well, there is limited space on a couple of the things I log into with for keys, specifically a router that uses an almost full flash ram device, so I don't want to have one key to log in from here and one key to log in from there, I want one key I can move around and replace periodically.

Putty uses a different key format natively that most other ssh implementations like OpenSSH or connectbot. But the puttykeygen utility contains options to convert between those formats. You have to load the key and export it as OpenSSH key.

i see the pic of connectbot using irssi from a remote shell......

anyone know how to: tab? complete and alt+x to switch through channel windows

thx

It would be nice if connect bot would understand asc key format

simicich,

Did you find a solution to this?

I have exactly the same problem trying to use puttygen to convert my private key to PPK format so I can use it in Filezilla for Secure FTP.

Thx

I got the private key i've used in Putty to work in Irssi ConnectBot? as well, with these steps:

1. Load the private key in puttygen
2. Export as OpenSSH key
3. Copy to /sdcard
4. In ConnectBot? manage pubkeys: a. import, b. open the visual lock
5. Disconnect the previous session and connect again

Cheers, Tomas

I've read the comments above but I'm still struggling to get a public key into or out of connectbot.

Yes, I can generate a key in connectbot and then copy the public key into the clipboard, but I can't find an application which I can paste it into which doesn't then mangle it by word-wrapping. Both e-mail clients mess it up, and I've yet to find a general purpose text editor for Android.

Is there no way simply to copy the public key to the SD card?

Cheers, John

After watching one of the videos, I believe one can SSH to a remote host and then paste the pubkey into a file on the remote host. It is the step that comes immediately after that which I did not understand, the one to associate the key with the remote host. I will have to watch the video again.

I had difficulty copying the public key and then pasting to a file on the remote host, so I used Dropbox on the Android phone to copy and paste to a file in my Dropbox directory. I then copied the key from the Dropbox directory onto my Linux netbook and then used scp to send it to the remote host to which I wanted to connect with the phone. That worked.

Hi, can i create a session with SSH2 protocol?

Thanks..

@androidtadpole: Getting the pubkey onto the remote host is much easier:

• generate keypair, touch the key for longer time, copy it to clipboard
• log onto remote box using password-auth
• enter "cat >tmp", then paste the key, <strg>+<d>
• "cat tmp >>.ssh/authorizey_keys"
• "rm tmp"

The key could also be attached directly but this way is less prone to messing up the file.

Hey guys ;) GREAT work on ConnectBot?! I have one big question... When I start an ncurses-based program on ConnectBot?, it appears to not like to display the box borders the way curses usually does, and instead shows ASCII characters that somewhat mirror the "boxes" that should be showing, cept for a big problem with spacing that has everything sort of jumbled here and there. I've run SET in both a full terminal (VT102) and in ConnectBot? on the same server and not noticed any differences (though the full terminal displays ncurses correctly)... Any advice?

I'm on Droid X. It does not have a track ball nor a physical keyboard. Is there any other way to navigate??

Can someone pls tell me how to connect ot ConnectBot? as Super User?

I save about 50 connections on Connectbot. Is there a way to export those so that I do not have to re-enter the information on another phone. I have a couple system admins that would like to be able to take advantage of my painstaking input of all the information (so they do not have to repeat the work...) :) Thanks,