Siemens 5890 manual Key Generator

SIEMENS 5890 DSL Router	Chapter 6 Security Setup
User’s Guide	Secure Shell

Key Generator

Diffie-Hellman is the key exchange system used for authentication in the establishment and maintenance of SSH connections. The Key exchange requires a Public key and a Private key. This key pair can either be loaded from a source file or generated by the router. This section describes how to generate the key pair on the router. Refer to the section titled Load Keys for details on loading the key pair from a file.

Executing this function will generate new keys. This function may take in excess of one hour to complete. When started, the user will be redirected to a status page that is refreshed every 60 seconds. The status page indicates whether the task is running. When the task is no longer running, results are displayed.

Once the task is started, you can close this page and the Keygen function will continue. You can reopen it anytime by clicking Key Generator Status on the left navigation pane of the Secure Shell (SSH) Configuration List page.

To generate the key pair on the router:

1.Click Key Generator on the left navigation pane of the Secure Shell (SSH) Configuration List page. This displays the Generate Public-Private Key Pair page.

2.Click Generate to generate the keys.

3.To monitor the key generation progress, click Key Generator Status from the left navigation pane of the Secure Shell (SSH) Configuration List page.

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