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.

ARGUMENTS

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. For client authentication ~/.ssh/id_dropbear is loaded by default

SUPPORTED FORMATS

dropbearconvert can read OpenSSH format files, and older PEM format files ( ssh-keygen -m PEM ). dropbearconvert will write OpenSSH format files, usable with OpenSSH 6.5 and later. Reading OpenSSH format DSS files or PKCS8 files is not currently supported.

EXAMPLE

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

AUTHOR

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