PEMtoPPK

A Go CLI tool to convert PEM files to PPK files for PuTTY using the cli package provided by urfave/cli

When you create a key pair in AWS and download it to SSH into a server, it will give you a .pem file. Now this is perfectly fine for NIX based systems, but for Windows this isn't as friendly. If you are a Windows user and use Putty, you know that you need a PPK file. This tool allows you to convert a PEM file to a PPK file quickly and easily instead of using PuttyGen (we all know CLI tools are quicker) 😁

Prerequisites:

• Install puttygen via Homebrew on Mac brew install putty, on Windows PC's PuTTYgen is installed when you install PuTTY
• Download the Go binary for your system here: https://golang.org/dl/.
• Follow the installation instructions for your system.
• Install cli by running go get github.com/urfave/cli

Usage:

1. Build the main package by running go build main.go
2. Run ./main.go convert --pem /path/to/pem --ppk /path/to/save/ppk

• /path/to/pem is where you have saved your .pem key
• /path/to/save/ppk is where you want to save your .ppk key