This illustration shows the ssh-keygen shell window. At the prompt, the command entered is: ssh-keygen The system messages that follow are: Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/me/.ssh/id_rsa): rsa_key Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been save in rsa_key. Your public key has been saved in rsa_key.pub. Then the key fingerprint is shown, appended by me@MYHOSTNAME. A randomart image is shown after the text "The key's randomart image is:"