ec2-fingerprint-key

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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ec2-fingerprint-key

Description

Computes and displays the fingerprint for a private key produced by Amazon EC2.

This operation is performed entirely on the client-side. Network access is not required.

Syntax

ec2-fingerprint-key keyfile

Options

Name Description Required

keyfile

The path to a file containing an unencrypted PEM-encoded PKCS#8 private key.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: mykey.pem

Yes

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • A key fingerprint. This is formatted as a hash digest with each octet separated by a colon

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example computes and displays the fingerprint for the mykey.pem private key.

PROMPT> ec2-fingerprint-key mykey.pem
1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f

ec2-describe-keypairs
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