Generated Keypair fails. Puttygen: Couldn't load private key

[system]

I am trying to generate the keypair as described in the help guide PDF but when I load the file into Puttygen it doesn’t accept it. It says:

Couldn’t load private key (not a private key)

I am using WinXP command line to run the following command:

ec2-add-keypair --region us-east-1 wowza-keypair 

and it spits out the key as to be expected, and I save the output as wowza-keypair.ppk but when I load the file into Puttygen, it fails with the above error message.

I’m sort of stuck at this point. Any help would be appreciated!

[Richard_Lanham]

Try saving the key with .pem extension, and loading that into Puttygen, which create a file with the .ppk extension.

Richard

[Richard_Lanham]

I follow these instructions, works every time:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2006-06-26/

I also use Firefox EC2 plugin ElasticFox to generate keys. You still have to use Puttygen

Richard

[Jason_Grunstra]

Tried that. Same result.

Any other ideas? Thanks.