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Gitkraken hates my SSH keys that work in SourceTree

I am connecting to a private git repository which I have been using perfectly with SourceTree for years.

I am trying to work with GitKraken since SourceTree is getting slower and GitKraken tells me my key pair is "invalid" and I need to check if they are in RSA format.

The key pair was created by Putty Gen and works great for SourceTree and other formats. I even tried opening them in PuttyGen and exporting them in RSA format, no difference.

Any idea why? I suspect this is some kind of formatting issue, but it's hard for me to tell and GitKraken has zero documentation on this error.

Thanks in advance.

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I did the following steps and it worked well.

  1. Go to Gitkraken > File > Preferences > Authentication

    .
  2. Uncheck the Use local SSH agent checkbox .
  3. Click the Generate button next to Generate New Private / Public Key and upload these files.
  4. In Gitkraken, download both files (SSH private key and SSH public key) by clicking the Browse button and select the files gitkraken_rsa

    and gitkraken_rsa.pub

    respectively.
  5. Next to the shortcut, gitkraken_rsa.pub

    click the clipboard icon to copy the contents of that file.
  6. Go to bitbucket.org , click in the lower left custom icon, then go Bitbucket settings > Security > SSH Keys

    and delete the actual keys, then click the Add key button , paste the contents of the RSA file, add the label name this key and click the Add button


And this is that you can establish a secure communication between Gitkraken and bitbubket.org.

NOTE. It looks like the key generated by gitkraken has a certain number of bits different from the command ssh-keygen

, so if you want to generate a key with a certain number of bits, use ssh-keygen -b 4096

4096 bits for the length.

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