ssh: support raw string input for 'key' argument as documented#2671
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January 31, 2026 22:19
Implement support for passing the actual private key as a string or bytes, as specified in the documentation. This prevents an AttributeError by converting the string to the appropriate Paramiko PKey object (RSA/ECDSA/Ed25519).
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The documentation of pwntools says that the key attribute of the ssh() function takes "key (str) – Try to authenticate using this private key. The string should be the actual private key."
Currently, passing a raw string or bytes object results in "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_fingerprint'" because paramiko expects a PKey object, not a raw string.
This adds conversion for str / bytes of RSA, ECDSA, Ed25519 key strings into the appropriate paramiko.PKey object. This aligns the actual behavior with the documented behavior.