How to use GitHub with SSH Keys on Windows 10

Is the user of the Secure Shell a requirement when you connect to GitHub? In this quick GitHub SSH on Windows tutorial, we’ll show you how to create SSH keypairs with ssh-keygen, copy the public SSH key on Windows, configure Windows SSH in GitHub, and finally perform a git clone while connected to GitHub over SSH on Windows.

It requires a bit of PowerShell. It requires a bit of GitHub configuration. And it requires a few SSH keys to be created. But in the end, it’s all pretty easy to do.

To learn more about how to create GitHub SSH keys, check out this TechTarget article:

https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/tutorial/Create-an-SSH-key-with-GitHub-for-network-access

All in all, you can configure GitHub SSH on Windows in less than 5 minutes. It’s that easy!