Hello, I'm trying to write some code capable of authenticating with a private key on windows. I generate my key with no passphrase:

c:\var\client>ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa): client_k
+ey
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in client_key.
Your public key has been saved in client_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:eBU07eoloUWInreyZ2WkYMvBAhISc2OIsiE1gp+iS4E user@localhost
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 3072]----+
|O=*    . o+.     |
|X=.o  . . .o.    |
|+= o o . ...     |
|E.o . B...+ .    |
|...  +.=S* o     |
|..    +.+ = .    |
|..     o + o     |
|.     . o .      |
|       o         |
+----[SHA256]-----+
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The key can be used successfully to authenticate:

c:\var\client>ssh -i client_key localhost
Last login: Thu Aug 22 16:34:22 2019

$
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My perl code is very simple at the moment:

use Net::SSH::Perl;
my $server='localhost';
my %params = (
            "protocol"         => '2',
            "use_pty"          => 0,
            "options"          => ["stricthostkeychecking no"],
            "identity_files"   => ["client_key"],
            "debug"            => 1,
        );

$ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($server, %params);
$ssh->login();
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But executing it returns Wrong key type.

c:\var\client>perl test.pl
localhost: Reading configuration data C:\Users\user\.ssh\config
localhost: Reading configuration data C:\windows\ssh_config
localhost: Connecting to localhost, port 22.
localhost: Remote version string: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.0
localhost: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSS
+H_8.0
localhost: Net::SSH::Perl Version 2.14, protocol version 2.0.
localhost: No compat match: OpenSSH_8.0.
localhost: Connection established.
localhost: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), waiting for response.
localhost: Using curve25519-sha256@libssh.org for key exchange
localhost: Host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
localhost: Algorithms, c->s: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com <implicit> 
+none
localhost: Algorithms, s->c: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com <implicit> 
+none
localhost: Generating ephemeral key pair.
localhost: Entering Curve 25519 Key Exchange.
localhost: Sent client public key, waiting for reply.
localhost: Received host key, type 'ssh-ed25519'.
localhost: Host 'localhost' is known and matches the host key.
localhost: Verifying server signature.
localhost: Send NEWKEYS.
localhost: Waiting for NEWKEYS message.
localhost: Enabling encryption/MAC/compression.
localhost: Sending request for user-authentication service.
localhost: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
localhost: SSH Extension activated: server-sig-algs=ssh-ed25519,ssh-rs
+a,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-ni
+stp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
localhost: Service accepted: ssh-userauth.
localhost: Trying empty user-authentication request.
localhost: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,passwor
+d,keyboard-interactive.
localhost: Next method to try is publickey.
localhost: Trying pubkey authentication with key file 'client_key'
Wrong key type at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Net/SSH/Perl/Auth/Public
+Key.pm line 83.
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I've tried generating DSA type keys and the error is the same. Googling it is not helping either.

Any help appreciated!

Regards.

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