Creating a Virtual Machine on Bluemix, is giving an error while importing ssh key

Question

I am following the steps to create Virtual Machine on Bluemix following the steps as below. https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/starters/index-gentopic4.html#vm_ssh_key

I am blocked when I am trying to configure a SSH key. I am using an existing key pair which I use with my other machines. I get an error

"Keypair data is invalid: failed to generate fingerprint"

I am not sure if it is not happy with the format or it is not OK with the public key itself. I have tried entering with the lines

---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- , 
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

and without it.

Answer 1

Try following github's steps to create a key pair. It seems your key pair might be invalid. Does your keypair work else where?