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import 4096bit DSA SSH key: "Error: invalid public key"

Asked by Bernhard on 2010-09-28

When trying to import my ssh key (a 4096bit DSA key which works without problems since some time now everywhere else) the "import key" of +editssh fails with "Invalid public key".

Please let me know what i can do to help tracking down this problem.
TIA && cheers,

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Status:: Solved

For:: Launchpad itself Edit question

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Solved by:: Bernhard

Solved:: 2016-04-14

Last query:: 2016-04-14

Last reply:: 2010-12-22

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said on 2010-09-28:

Can you paste a copy of the public key at http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/ ? The common reasons for failure are paste errors like broken lines or the missing end comment.

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Bernhard (rep-dot-nop) said on 2010-09-29:

The end comment is indeed empty:
$ tail -c3 .ssh/id_dsa.pub
==

Could you please emit an appropriate error if you require a trailing comment?
TIA.

PS: I've added a " foo" now and the key was imported successfully.
The trailing token after the public-key is not required by ssh, i guess people often put something like their email-addr in there as comment.