I had a similar problem when the public key spaned multiple lines (however, using it with ssh worked).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to seahorse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372608 Title: import failure: Invalid file format Status in “seahorse” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Importing a SSH private key using File -> Import fails. The key is valid. Adding it to the ssh key agent on command line works as expected. This used to work in older Ubuntu versions and got lost on the way to Jaunty. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/372608/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
