Exporting OpenPGP or SSH FTP keys

The following describes how to export an OpenPGP or SSH FTP keys.

  1. In the web UI, go to Administration > Certificate Management > Certificates. In the native UI, go to Tools > Certificate Manager or click the Certificates button in the tool bar.
  2. Right-click the user certificate in the tree pane and select Export>OpenPGP or SSH FTP Keys...
  3. Choose the file format from the following:
    • OpenPGP Public
    • OpenPGP Public/Private
    • OpenSSH FTP Public
    • SSH FTP Public (IETF format)
    • SSH FTP Private
    Neither the OpenPGP Public/Private Keypair or SSH Private Key should be selected for export and sent to a trading partner. Instead, select the appropriate public key format if you wish to export for sending to a trading partner.
  4. When either the OpenPGP Public Key (.ASC) or OpenPGP Public/Private Keypair (.ASC) options are selected, the Preferred PGP Algorithms panel is enabled, allowing selection of the preferred cipher, digest and compression algorithms to be used when exporting the public key or public/private keypair in .asc format. The preferred algorithm selection values are:
    • Cipher: TripleDES (default), Blowfish, CAST5, DES, AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, Twofish
    • Digest: MD2, MD5, RIPE-MD-160, SHA-1, SHA-256 (default), SHA-384, SHA-512
    • Compression: ZIP (default), ZLIB
  5. Enter the Private key password. This field is not necessary when either the OpenSSH or SSH FTP format is selected and is disabled.
  6. Enter or browse for the key filename. The appropriate extension will be appended to the filename.
  7. Click Export to export the key.