SSH Key Fingerprint

Generates a fingerprint for an SSH key.

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import sys
import chilkat


key = chilkat.CkSshKey()

#  Load an SSH key from an encrypted OpenSSH-formatted private key:
key.put_Password("secret")

#  First load the PEM into a string:
keyStr = key.loadText("privkey_openssh_encrypted.pem")

#  Import into the SSH key object:
success = key.FromOpenSshPrivateKey(keyStr)
if (success != True):
    print key.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Generate the fingerprint:

fingerprint = key.genFingerprint()

print fingerprint

#  A sample fingerpring looks like this:
#  ssh-dss 2048 d0:5f:f7:d6:49:60:7b:50:19:f4:41:59:d4:1f:61:7a