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-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.160 2019/05/20 06:01:59 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.161 2019/07/15 13:16:29 djm Exp $
.\"
.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 20 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 15 2019 $
.Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -419,11 +419,12 @@ The supported key formats are:
.Dq RFC4716
(RFC 4716/SSH2 public or private key),
.Dq PKCS8
-(PEM PKCS8 public key)
+(PKCS8 public or private key)
or
.Dq PEM
(PEM public key).
-The default conversion format is
+By default OpenSSH will write newly-generated private keys in its own
+format, but when converting public keys for export the default format is
.Dq RFC4716 .
Setting a format of
.Dq PEM