[sclug] Van Dyke Software's SecureCRT private keys

[Sapan Ganguly]

Thats what I thought, I didn't buy SecureCRT, I think it it was an
unecessary purchase, TeraTerm would have done the job, they just needed a
terminal that supported Zmodem transfers.

On 14/06/06, Andy Smith <andy at lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:21:56PM +0100, Sapan Ganguly wrote:
> >    Does anyone know of a way of converting private SSH keys that have
> >    been generated with Van Dyke's SecureCRT into OpenSSH format?  I have
> >    asked Van Dyke directly and they say a tool is being developed but
> >    they have been saying that since 2004!
>
> There is no way to convert the proprietary Vandyke private key
> format to a portable one.  They will not release the specs of the
> file format either.
>
> This is pretty much a poster boy case of why non-Free software is
> bad; you paid for software that won't interoperate, you're at the
> mercy of the vendor who will decide when you can do the trivial
> thing you want to do, and probably if they ever get around to it
> they will charge you more.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
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> iD8DBQFEkGUFIJm2TL8VSQsRAh8XAJ4jvWm8/ixbf9QXsYaK0FCGjSzTYwCgyN0N
> GDyMj+n8ZsTtPJtsIEDBvyo=
> =+vqY
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>
>
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