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.

OPTIONS¶

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

EXAMPLE¶

# dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/dropbear_priv

AUTHOR¶

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

SEE ALSO¶

dropbearkey(1), ssh-keygen(1) https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html