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    "I have generated the pub key on Ubuntu and have copied it over to my Windows machine" - AFAIK the ssh client (Windows) needs the private key, the public key goes in the remote server's authorized_keys file Commented Aug 13 at 19:57
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    And... yup! After a bit more effort, that was exactly it. The private key needed to be there... the authorized_keys was where the .pub needed to be. Thank you! Commented Aug 13 at 21:48
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    And BTW the Windows (10 up) 'builtin' ssh IS a port of OpenSSH Commented Aug 14 at 1:16