For security purposes, you identify yourself to the Fedora Project with a key pair that consists of a public and a private key. To generate the key pair, follow this procedure.
Open Windows Explorer, and navigate to the folder where you installed TortoiseCVS. In a default installation, this folder is
C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS. Double-clickputtygen.exeas shown in Figure 6, “Start puttygen Program”.Choose SSH2 DSA in Parameters, then press Generate as shown in Figure 7, “Generate DSA Keys”.
Move your mouse around the screen to generate the key pairs, as shown in Figure 8, “Key Generation In Progress”.
After the key pair is generated, enter some comment for this key pair (or accept the default comment). Input the key passphrase twice to protect your private key. Use this "key passphrase" every time you connect to the Fedora CVS repository to get the latest documents, as shown in Figure 9, “Key Generation In Progress”, area 1.
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Important Save your public and private keys in a safe place. To save these keys, press Save public key and Save private key as shown in Figure 9, “Key Generation In Progress”, area 2.
![[Tip]](./stylesheet-images/tip.png) | The Public Key |
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The text circled in yellow (Figure 9, “Key Generation In Progress”) is the public key you must copy and paste when registering an account. Refer to Section 4, “Register Your Fedora Account” for more information. You may want to leave this window open for later use. |
![[Note]](./stylesheet-images/note.png) | Filenames |
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It does not matter where you save your keys, or what filenames
you use to save them. In this example, the filename
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