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Document cmdgen ability to read public-only keys.
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\c{puttygen} is a tool to generate and manipulate SSH public and
private key pairs. It is part of the PuTTY suite, although it can
also interoperate with the private key formats used by some other
SSH clients.
also interoperate with the key formats used by some other SSH clients.

When you run \c{puttygen}, it does three things. Firstly, it either
loads an existing key file (if you specified \e{keyfile}), or
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\dt \e{keyfile}

\dd Specify a private key file to be loaded. This private key file can
be in the (de facto standard) SSH-1 key format, or in PuTTY's SSH-2
key format, or in either of the SSH-2 private key formats used by
OpenSSH and ssh.com's implementation.
\dd Specify a key file to be loaded.

\lcont{

Usually this will be a private key, which can be in the (de facto
standard) SSH-1 key format, or in PuTTY's SSH-2 key format, or in
either of the SSH-2 private key formats used by OpenSSH and
ssh.com's implementation.

You can also specify a file containing only a \e{public} key here.
The operations you can do are limited to outputting another public
key format or a fingerprint. Public keys can be in RFC 4716 or
OpenSSH format, or the standard SSH-1 format.

}

\dt \cw{\-t} \e{keytype}

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