SIEMENS 5881 Broadband Internet Router
User’s Guide
Chapter 6 Security Setup
Secure Shell
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Key Generator
Diffie-Hellman is the key exchange system used for authentication in the establishment and maintenance of
SSH connections. The Key exchange requires a Public key and a Private key. This key pair can either be
loaded from a source file or generated by the router. This section describes how to generate the key pair on
the router. Refer to the section titled
Load Keys
for details on loading the key pair from a file.
Executing this function will generate new keys. This function may take in excess of one hour to complete.
When started, the user will be redirected to a status page that is refreshed every 60 seconds. The status page
indicates whether the task is running. When the task is no longer running, results are displayed.
Once the task is started, you can close this page and the Keygen function will continue. You can reopen it
anytime by clicking
Key Generator Status
on the left navigation pane of the Secure Shell (SSH) Configuration
List page.
To generate the key pair on the router:
1. Click
Key Generator
on the left navigation pane of the Secure Shell (SSH) Configuration List page. This
displays the Generate Public-Private Key Pair page.
2. Click
Generate
to generate the keys.
3. To monitor the key generation progress, click
Key Generator Status
from the left navigation pane of the
Secure Shell (SSH) Configuration List page.
