generating ssh2 keypairs with Crypt::RSA?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know the options that I need in order to produce RFC 4716 format ssh keys (ie, what you would get if you ran ssh-keygen on *nix)? I ask because I need to programatically generate keypairs on windows. I can't use ssh-keygen via cygwin b/c I need to ultimately deploy this script, and the puttygen.exe is interactive-only. Apparently, KF => 'SSH' is not enough:

use Crypt::RSA;

my $rsa = new Crypt::RSA;

my ($public, $private) = 
$rsa->keygen ( 
    Identity  => 'Lord Macbeth <macbeth@glamis.com>',
    Size      => 1024,  
    Password  => 'A day so foul & fair', 
    Verbosity => 1,
    KF => 'SSH',
    Filename => 'mykey'
) or die $rsa->errstr();
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help? is there a better module for this?

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Re: generating ssh2 keypairs with Crypt::RSA? by oko1 (Deacon) on Oct 12, 2010 at 02:42 UTC
Well, Crypt::DSA will generate a keypair for you, but it's not going to be in RFC4716 format. A quick Net search brings up the Chilkat module... but that looks like it's proprietary. Have you considered downloading Cygwin and using "ssh-keygen" from there? That might be your best option. -- "Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." -- B. L. Whorf	[reply]
Re: generating ssh2 keypairs with Crypt::RSA? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2010 at 03:13 UTC
public key ssh2	[reply]
Re: generating ssh2 keypairs with Crypt::RSA? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2010 at 03:08 UTC
and the puttygen.exe is interactive-only You can always install GnuPG Apparently, KF => 'SSH' is not enough How did you arrive at that conclusion? It works for me	[reply]
Re^2: generating ssh2 keypairs with Crypt::RSA? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2010 at 03:12 UTC
How did you arrive at that conclusion? It works for me Sorry, duh, of course it works, but its not SSH2 format, obviously	[reply]