Generate a New SSH User Identity Key

You can generate a new SSH User Identity Key.

1. Select Trading Partners > SSH > User Identity Key.
2. Next to Create new User Identity Key, click Go!
3. Type a Key Name. Do not use spaces or special characters.
   You cannot create a user identity key and a host identity key with the same name.

   Attention: SSH Authorized User Key names should not identify an associated trading partner. Select a naming convention where trading partners remain anonymous. Anyone with access to the dashboard My Account interface can see a list of all SSH Authorized User Key names in the system, not just their own.
4. Select the Key Type as either ssh-rsa or ssh-ed25519.
   Note: If you want to generate keys using ssh-dss key-type, then you must include the property sftp.defaultSFTP=1.0 in the customer_overrides.properties file.

   Important: The key type ssh-ed25519 is only available for SFTP 2.0 from Sterling B2B Integrator v6.2.0.1 onwards.
5. For ssh-rsa, select the Key Length from the following options:
   • 768
   • 1024
   • 1536
   • 2048
   Note: The longer the key length, the more secure the key.
   For ssh-ed25519, select the Key Length as 256.
6. Type any Comments associated with this key. Comments are not required.
7. Click Next.
8. Confirm your entries and click Finish.