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Load PuTTY Private Key

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Loads a PuTTY private key into an SSH key object.

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local sb = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
local bCrlf = true
sb:append_line("PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("Encryption: aes256-cbc", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("Comment: rsa-key-20161121", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("Public-Lines: 6", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEArIVxZTGYjqqNegJeMqgZzXKuX3YtxmD4DPnQ", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("K01SXoR9UA4wl6RJK5FGonI5spVnddr6HJny0eY5/RmV1dyL0fNdH2pfnHHoTd9B", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("uXG0PcTn4BqJFlybC6NNaGaByqpNPaOgjJIMHXTaeCuDuzwP02f3UKSfLAFdvUNP", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("fX3yrMRabjVcHJpgUn535Y9Y3ZphSFssiElLpp1vo6QLsdiAl0wgU4HLw9Dfg8sh", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("p3zgAufYUUIx2HChITJ7OO/PH5GEbPvJFbYH4Wx33GEe56JCF9QxxDCqNxsPMrvu", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("mqkSIPIELFl5zVYSFD9PiL8RZQcPJGq5zbF9+szsS/6DSH8biw==", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("Private-Lines: 14", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("SVqUm9zBUN6zaAaUY6TLnIXAhxqv4s1UhzukcN7Ns0Fs1EqdDP4nVMKgmiDxHaAj", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("ucb1PLv7uj2eGt69E+HKH4AC2LtJZNH4qLw+p8QKqdN79oRAMHwtS4cU88eeQ91t", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("2W3wzmTzvYFlE6VbUr3bNl3f68OCQHz+7YJuL8g0eclNuveHB/VmBqnek1LL/cRY", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("wmk8wyzHRl7X8fyjGX0PiOPyVwXBDJFNjjKAdrRCRS0Cc4PWAb/18qrA9ApArQVk", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("a5miOMfrXFF2Vg3JyNgfdDilNKkry9x5oTtfueZkFgu/6pofP5qrTstr+BmB16mu", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("MxcDRF+jOm9XvU1OnrzQ9rBzuaHEfhSHqlKyMGTDuzRtNyxlDBgK4DaZ2z1FJQGF", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("63p36KgVqx571PUJ8P/28VUb6s/OtXcjhxxvhC8Eo0wrTdjzDiX+IovdjOhWgn4v", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("xugaYocotTbhqq+O1w9xYtmG8fP921+TIpHzCkE8QTJzLJ40pemKZ+TAOmhb0OUQ", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("jemqmRohcxx7NEoZ0TsoAe6i+GQJ2cEE7LcNcSX3V66AkyTsTieqk1nSxyHyoF+l", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("rTaVOhFM5H8Etzv94SP3c1if3Qa9cmZaEmfaqrS94bzX+OY/zRIFweT0BeMo3Uac", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("fP6gBDBiLYZeRURcx0mYRdNYlssaKoYLA6c7F3ggo34VfgD6LP+ZYnG8yAXGXSPr", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("lgrfdg/szqSsOKVdkoGTkVy+BgrhITnFIs8TLZsrtSEPmXjEa+QvdP6FPsyN5u6P", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("8s0i8EC0KT0YA77Ps29DEU3fxsXVSc9Xd9qdiWfJ0ce2hOsTwxL1gxtXUKP4xCzm", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("oXaWLFajiws2EjgBbwREj12v0I2N4xrpf/PeJq22EvWLYm9H94DdFrkm0b4p6Kmu", bCrlf)
sb:append_line("Private-MAC: ef04289f158f498b8050e19f1630b4764fe64ab9", bCrlf)

local sshKey = chilkat.SshKey.new()

-- Must specify a password for this PuTTY private key because it is encrypted.
sshKey.password = "secret"

local success = sshKey:from_putty_private_key(sb:get_as_string())
if not success then
    print(sshKey.last_error_text)
    print("Failed.")
end

print("success = " .. tostring(success))