Egit Refuses to accept id_rsa

Question

I\'m a first time git user trying to setup egit in Eclipse so I can continue to easily code through Eclipse. Problem is, every time I try to clone a repo through egit, it gives

Answer 1

As VonC says, it's a bug that the SSH implementation that EGit uses can't handle anything but 3DES encrypted private keys. If you're like me, you have AES encrypted keys, so it just fails to decrypt them. There is a comment in that bug report, here's a link directly to the comment https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=326526#c9

That comment provided a working workaround: recent versions of EGit honour the GIT_SSH environment variable, setting that to /usr/bin/ssh or even plink.exe if you're on windows should solve the issue.