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Extracting SSH keys from a Java keystore (jks) file

September 23, 2011

I needed to extract/generate a public ssh key from a java keystore so that the Java application could SFTP some files using public key authentication.

The problem was that I couldn’t find any way of converting an ssl public key to an ssh public key. It seems that although ssl and ssh private keys are compatible, the public keys are not.

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