Generating SSH keys with SecureCRT SecureCRT can be downloaded free of charge by Purdue students, faculty, and staff from the Purdue Community Hub. Open a quick connect window (Under “File” or Alt-Q).

The PuTTY application is now ready to roll. Before I can use it to talk to my EC2 machine, I must convert my private key to a PuTTY-friendly format and load the key into the SSH authentication agent.