SSH Key Pairs Can Now Be Generated Inside Tediware

You can generate key pairs when creating or editing an SFTP connection within Tediware, so you can send a partner a public key without running ssh-keygen yourself.

Impact: when a trading partner asks for your SSH public key, edit the SFTP connection, choose SSH key under Authentication, and click Generate key pair. Connections that already use a password or a key you pasted in keep working as they are, and nothing changes until you edit them.

How it works:

• You can generate an Ed25519 key, the default, or an RSA 4096 key for partners whose servers require RSA.
• Tediware keeps the private key. Once the connection is saved, the private key cannot be viewed or downloaded, so if you need the same key somewhere outside Tediware, generate it yourself and paste it in instead.
• The public key is shown on the connection’s page with Copy and Download .pub, so you can send it to your partner again later.
• A generated key has to be saved within an hour. After that, the form rejects it and you generate a new one.
• Authentication now offers Password, SSH key, or Password and SSH key, for partner servers that require both.

Limits and compatibility:

• To rotate a key, edit the connection and generate a new key pair, then send your partner the new public key. The old key stops working in Tediware as soon as you save.
• Remove key deletes a generated key and switches the connection to password authentication, so the connection needs a password before it can be saved.
• Pasting your own private key still works, and a pasted key stays visible on the form as it did before. Pasting one over a generated key replaces it and clears the stored public key.

Setup details, including the ssh-keygen steps for bringing your own key, are in the connection docs.

This update was written with AI assistance. It has been reviewed and edited by a human.