I just created an SHH pair using git bash in win 10

I get the pair shown in the attached image.

In Win 7 one of them was the pub key, but in Win 10 they have the same name, so what is the public key?

CodePudding user response：

The key with the .pub extension

There should be an option to show the extension in the file explorer. Also, you should be able to right-click the file to get extra info.

CodePudding user response：

They have the same name both in Windows 7 and Windows 10, they are both called id_rsa. They have different extensions though. Your private key has no extension and is shown as File in Explorer, while the public key has a .pub extension, which is not shown by Explorer. However, Explorer mistakenly misunderstands "pub", that stands for "public" and assumes that it's "Microsoft Publisher Document" :)

So the one with the green P on it is the public key.

If not seeing extensions in Windows 10 bothers you, then you might want to read an article about how to make them visible in Explorer: https://fileinfo.com/help/windows_10_show_file_extensions