Generate usable keypair for OpenSSH?

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cryptography, documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the README example that currently uses PEM format and compare it with the OpenSSH format requested in the issue. Update the documentation with a usable private/public ECDSA keypair generation example for OpenSSH authentication; the issue is done when the example produces keys OpenSSH can understand.

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Description

feature help wanted

How can one generate a private-public ECDSA keypair that is in the right
format to be used for OpenSSH authentication? OpenSSH uses its own format
where as the example suggested in the README uses the .pem format that OpenSSH can not understand.
Can someone please show me an example how I can generate a private public ECDSA keypair in a format that OpenSSH can understand?

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