I used PuTTY Key Generator to generate a 4096 bit RSA-2 key with a passphrase.
I save the .ppk and an openSSL format public key. The putty format public key doesn\'t
So, after update I had the same issue. I was using PEM key_file without extension and simply adding .pem fixed my issue. Now the file is key_file.pem.
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