Need help creating a new SSH Key to login to Amazon EC2

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kmac

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Jun 28, 2010, 9:15:30 AM6/28/10
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Hello,

I installed the TouchTerm Pro app on my iPhone 3GS, to login to
accounts on Amazon EC2.

A bit of background on EC2:

With EC2, they publish a private key that looks like this:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEAxGZaB/
d5zZZJMU7B5WmVuSISG42zG6THIeHkv3Nw6BtPd0+grb0POqi/INSp
:
:
:
:
4xjWkvd4C/WSux5N8EeZZWUO5idIJxBgi/e3Vk4uwozIr0Lpqua3YkOPrv6g8loO
+tHrPQ==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----


on Unix, I use this key to login to my EC2 instance as follows:

$ ssh -i {name_of_file_that_contains_private_rsa_key_above}
root@ec2_hostname


Unfortunately, under TouchTerm Pro's Key manager, I cannot figure out
how to create a new key that includes the private key above.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you
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