How easy is it to add an ssh key to Github and to the github client?

Question

GitHub

Github asks to add ssh key. But nowhere, nowhere is it normally written how to generate a pair of keys. I have one file generated from Pub, another file without extension. And I need a ppk file.
How the hell do you do it? Is there any simple and clear instruction?

Answer 1

Go to Github, go to your account settings. There is a SSH Keys tab, open it, there is an Add SSH Key button. Title - whatever, Key - copy all the text from the id_rsa.pub file, the one in C:\Users\<User_name>\.ssh. And you will be happy.

Answer 2

There is also a simple instruction for any OS on github
https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys