I followed the instructions for "Set up SSH for Git on Windows", but it's broken

[chip]

Set up SSH for Git on Windows: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/set-up-an-ssh-key-728138079.html

1. generate the key from the instructions, changing nothing.
2. from the prompt `notepad ~/.ssh/id_rsa`
3. ctrl-a (select all) copy
4. paste
5. click "Add Key"
6. "That SSH Key is invalid."
7. Remove the `-----BEGIN` and `-----END` header and footer
8. click "Add Key"
9. "That SSH Key is invalid."

The end result is this screenshot

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This needs to be fixed if it's supposed to be official instruction.

[evancamilleri]

I have the same problem, my public key is 

---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "rsa-key-20201126"
AAAA data removed T7oQ==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

I get "That SSH key is invalid."

[Scott Kowalczyk]

What is saved to a file from Putty is different than what is in the window and what Bitbucket needs. It should be of this format.

ssh-rsa
AAAA data removed T7oQ==

[Mikael Sandberg]

Make sure you copy all the characters in the .pub file, normally on Windows it adds a label at the end, that also needs to be included.

[chip]

I modded the OP to include the process used to include the public key text.

[Mikael Sandberg]

The ssh-keygen generates two files, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. You want to copy the content in id_rsa.pub into your profile in Bitbucket. So in step 2 your command should look like this instead:

 notepad ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub