What is the public key file that is generated by PuTTY?

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Published on 2014-06-07T20:26:29Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 21:28 UTC
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If I'm using the PuTTY key generator to create a public/private key pair, there is a button to "Save public key" like so:

Highlighted button in the PuTTY Key Generator window

However OpenSSH doesn't accept the format of this public key file, at least as far as I can tell. The generated public key looks like this:

---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "rsa-key-20140607"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAs+UjC01Fk8xs8vpLW1RIipwxG1zXTaCkIdeJ
K3SyhMVl78/QwErTYuIop3wVmVAuTKhw4uYCMaRZCy36FdSGQ9FwDCP+lT36M2Xv
ZtraweH+1IPHzRf2ENNdEfs286zllu96WGtqLYwObXQbHMm3dPDDbH3apynrS/FJ
HisCayFXFN84aBfh9HFHrM++BXqpxTX5nq50QoRwSjMY6qMuLwjJKKQslcb5hlRV
SjCmUZKv9/fH+i0BI7UHJ01XHNp1sisL5biWkakXD9BxXjv/ggyeLsOTtdtrF0DK
7wYQXyNmpRqHYOBdrZlskHf/R1CtWoBi5IIeARWZVDduXf1Pww==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

(Key is not an actual public key)

Where is this key used typically? Does it work with OpenSSH at all?

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