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Putty error "PuTTY key format too new"

  • Ahmed Aboulnaga

Ahmed Aboulnaga

Dec 18, 2023 • 1 min read

I recently received a "PuTTY key format too new" error when trying to SSH into one of my cloud VMs.

Simply download the latest version of Putty from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html and you should be good to go.

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