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Get PuTTY Public Key from Private PPK

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Demonstrates how to get a PuTTY public key from the PPK private key.

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integer li_rc
long li_Success
oleobject loo_PuttyKey
string ls_PpkText
string ls_StrPubKey1
string ls_StrPubKey2

li_Success = 0

//  Load a .ppk PuTTY private key.
loo_PuttyKey = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_PuttyKey.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.SshKey")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_PuttyKey
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
ls_PpkText = loo_PuttyKey.LoadText("qa_data/ppk/putty_private_secret.ppk")

//  The ppkText contains this content:

//  	PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa
//  	Encryption: aes256-cbc
//  	Comment: rsa-key-20170126
//  	Public-Lines: 6
//  	AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAx+52s7vvaZ8rT2UdFZWlSUVDHDQ+5ZRFvgRW
//  	6nm2sO1c9WqNg7u2PQL4jeKSDX2XWcMnpleALz2x8Rr4rMy5E1iZzvWov8VtFd8l
//  	fa9HOkgEeJB3VFuYR3NlnD3eyCoYJYPVpHJHrIeui2WZs5vQ76HDe+th8+z5Ald4
//  	zPw3p2c6ZJpBrkSBM67hWokoBDi23c7NhszDHhJBrv+B98cQxnagI1PUKqN7E8Vg
//  	bNtBI8beIMHyI69up9G1AXSEi0cGIjYNx9RNUPau1mRk/SvfqxgWkAjM005lj7hc
//  	bOsjbdKK3T2NtrKTaYjEiXlEXcj1iGuApsD/m73pYaEJB3Nd7w==
//  	Private-Lines: 14
//  	MoaDbq0owouN/7Z9Pga0favDhM2bSEgMErJBxdDmNUXIVVcUoLiD/Ps1RA+BeBBX
//  	wxqKUt9PqLy/pnafPR/i2xjJiQtQ0CWkPxND16Gi1dqLzmbQYYl1ev4+LzuG0zNX
//  	HDGMvRiwagY7mY+F1tUjBYfOL6z8XHw4m40YcY1QorOO+0MMzAVT5Hkg8YyXW209
//  	B/V/LRADFMVA2BlL39y11cb5ZpFStPH/waYUMY+2w1ZmJZ7dcRoMjuKmY+YE/tUx
//  	n9X3P0qTNSbw6e6sMG3Dhr1vfoJUQWApUliD6GpUiCeIvXBcVqG8Vsfq9XADsPl0
//  	+nFAwjSZflywcB7/FwhGb7q5UmcJK06SzoMl7Og5e3g7NCs3yNNQIv+qCpDjhxrA
//  	hpT03mbipu7OXCZDeUwUhMGJAmYHE5iqm1rPCsSVbaMgpxhCWf01Cx4gLx3aMvn4
//  	MdylA31GuL3wSxcWTslrOI8+449lZN/qZEnGEZkYTrnlu123jTqsAWMMtuHSz2Ig
//  	6GA89oTdlppkNflhNH3OJ85kMUrc3p/ZBMdndz8jTDTljmJjHR5oNMoShFof115A
//  	nWjUHqBwCgcubLYyH3afDvBTOhtl0tJ9Oby0wJlOAGnCXiPSDbF/y7J7xml/PS9t
//  	XlSVNxtAY15NDO6Fp96sBVfKuJsfJ90PzdBom4ikIuf7sMwtElrHHLuYfcXJQYLp
//  	G5jBmqDgnirosVPEBIxlxFzz/HCRmdU+tsYg46gqI4R5UpKUe8WSaJoZkDGsrqhm
//  	e+1SJaBuafR4v2bx/bV414Hg7LGQosK2S3crxH4UgZl+g02vWznZfBH+9CmHvKDR
//  	AxfcKOTzsaILKJtQPV81lmJ45sARYMcB5jMiE4kBg56hiXouChsvKkm55WVcW1E+
//  	Private-MAC: 17512c9f7582c1d9c3ae2b01b4d67a6b1dbd1d0e

//  "secret" is the actual password for the above PPK.
loo_PuttyKey.Password = "secret"
li_Success = loo_PuttyKey.FromPuttyPrivateKey(ls_PpkText)
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_PuttyKey.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_PuttyKey
    return
end if

//  There are two common SSH public key formats.
//  This example will convert to both.

//  1) Convert to an OpenSSH public key
//  
ls_StrPubKey1 = loo_PuttyKey.ToOpenSshPublicKey()
Write-Debug ls_StrPubKey1

//  strPubKey1 contains:
//  
//  ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAx+52s7vvaZ8rT2UdFZWlSUVDHDQ+5ZRFvgRW6nm2sO1c9WqNg7u2PQL4jeKSDX2XWcMnpleALz2x8Rr4rMy5E1iZzvWov8VtFd8lfa9HOkgEeJB3VFuYR3NlnD3eyCoYJYPVpHJHrIeui2WZs5vQ76HDe+th8+z5Ald4zPw3p2c6ZJpBrkSBM67hWokoBDi23c7NhszDHhJBrv+B98cQxnagI1PUKqN7E8VgbNtBI8beIMHyI69up9G1AXSEi0cGIjYNx9RNUPau1mRk/SvfqxgWkAjM005lj7hcbOsjbdKK3T2NtrKTaYjEiXlEXcj1iGuApsD/m73pYaEJB3Nd7w== rsa-key-20170126

//  2) Convert to an RFC 4716 SSH public key PEM
//  
ls_StrPubKey2 = loo_PuttyKey.ToRfc4716PublicKey()
Write-Debug ls_StrPubKey2

//  strPubKey2 contains:
//  
//  ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
//  Comment: "rsa-key-20170126"
//  AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAx+52s7vvaZ8rT2UdFZWlSUVDHDQ+5ZRFvgRW
//  6nm2sO1c9WqNg7u2PQL4jeKSDX2XWcMnpleALz2x8Rr4rMy5E1iZzvWov8VtFd8l
//  fa9HOkgEeJB3VFuYR3NlnD3eyCoYJYPVpHJHrIeui2WZs5vQ76HDe+th8+z5Ald4
//  zPw3p2c6ZJpBrkSBM67hWokoBDi23c7NhszDHhJBrv+B98cQxnagI1PUKqN7E8Vg
//  bNtBI8beIMHyI69up9G1AXSEi0cGIjYNx9RNUPau1mRk/SvfqxgWkAjM005lj7hc
//  bOsjbdKK3T2NtrKTaYjEiXlEXcj1iGuApsD/m73pYaEJB3Nd7w==
//  ---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----


destroy loo_PuttyKey