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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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Xbase++
LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oSb
LOCAL nBCrlf
LOCAL oSshKey

nSuccess := 0

oSb := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
nBCrlf := 1
oSb:AppendLine("PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("Encryption: aes256-cbc", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("Comment: rsa-key-20161121", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("Public-Lines: 6", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEArIVxZTGYjqqNegJeMqgZzXKuX3YtxmD4DPnQ", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("K01SXoR9UA4wl6RJK5FGonI5spVnddr6HJny0eY5/RmV1dyL0fNdH2pfnHHoTd9B", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("uXG0PcTn4BqJFlybC6NNaGaByqpNPaOgjJIMHXTaeCuDuzwP02f3UKSfLAFdvUNP", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("fX3yrMRabjVcHJpgUn535Y9Y3ZphSFssiElLpp1vo6QLsdiAl0wgU4HLw9Dfg8sh", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("p3zgAufYUUIx2HChITJ7OO/PH5GEbPvJFbYH4Wx33GEe56JCF9QxxDCqNxsPMrvu", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("mqkSIPIELFl5zVYSFD9PiL8RZQcPJGq5zbF9+szsS/6DSH8biw==", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("Private-Lines: 14", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("SVqUm9zBUN6zaAaUY6TLnIXAhxqv4s1UhzukcN7Ns0Fs1EqdDP4nVMKgmiDxHaAj", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("ucb1PLv7uj2eGt69E+HKH4AC2LtJZNH4qLw+p8QKqdN79oRAMHwtS4cU88eeQ91t", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("2W3wzmTzvYFlE6VbUr3bNl3f68OCQHz+7YJuL8g0eclNuveHB/VmBqnek1LL/cRY", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("wmk8wyzHRl7X8fyjGX0PiOPyVwXBDJFNjjKAdrRCRS0Cc4PWAb/18qrA9ApArQVk", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("a5miOMfrXFF2Vg3JyNgfdDilNKkry9x5oTtfueZkFgu/6pofP5qrTstr+BmB16mu", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("MxcDRF+jOm9XvU1OnrzQ9rBzuaHEfhSHqlKyMGTDuzRtNyxlDBgK4DaZ2z1FJQGF", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("63p36KgVqx571PUJ8P/28VUb6s/OtXcjhxxvhC8Eo0wrTdjzDiX+IovdjOhWgn4v", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("xugaYocotTbhqq+O1w9xYtmG8fP921+TIpHzCkE8QTJzLJ40pemKZ+TAOmhb0OUQ", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("jemqmRohcxx7NEoZ0TsoAe6i+GQJ2cEE7LcNcSX3V66AkyTsTieqk1nSxyHyoF+l", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("rTaVOhFM5H8Etzv94SP3c1if3Qa9cmZaEmfaqrS94bzX+OY/zRIFweT0BeMo3Uac", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("fP6gBDBiLYZeRURcx0mYRdNYlssaKoYLA6c7F3ggo34VfgD6LP+ZYnG8yAXGXSPr", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("lgrfdg/szqSsOKVdkoGTkVy+BgrhITnFIs8TLZsrtSEPmXjEa+QvdP6FPsyN5u6P", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("8s0i8EC0KT0YA77Ps29DEU3fxsXVSc9Xd9qdiWfJ0ce2hOsTwxL1gxtXUKP4xCzm", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("oXaWLFajiws2EjgBbwREj12v0I2N4xrpf/PeJq22EvWLYm9H94DdFrkm0b4p6Kmu", nBCrlf)
oSb:AppendLine("Private-MAC: ef04289f158f498b8050e19f1630b4764fe64ab9", nBCrlf)

oSshKey := CreateObject("Chilkat.SshKey")

//  Must specify a password for this PuTTY private key because it is encrypted.
oSshKey:Password := "secret"

nSuccess := oSshKey:FromPuttyPrivateKey(oSb:GetAsString())
IF (nSuccess != 1)
    ? oSshKey:LastErrorText
    ? "Failed."
ENDIF

? "success = " + Str(nSuccess)

oSb:destroy()
oSshKey:destroy()