Convert keys between GnuPG, OpenSsh and OpenSSL Par Jérôme Pouiller le mercredi, mars 24 2010, 16:47 - Technique - Lien permanent OpenSSH to OpenSSL OpenSSH private keys are directly understable by OpenSSL. You can test for example: openssl rsa -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa -text openssl dsa -in ~/.ssh/id_dsa -text You can also convert then to PEM format easily (notice, format for SSH private keys and PEM is