I have a client that has provided sFTP credentials, and now is asking me for a public key. Umm. I've not implemented sFTP in this way. Anyone have experience to this method? Shouldn't they be providing me with a 'Private Key' instead?

asymmetric crypto is designed so that you only need to exchange public keys

I'll never be an expert in the protocol details, but I'm more asking if NetSuite's n/sftp module supports this type of authentication? And if so, where to I retrieve this public key? (Do I generated this public key?)

their sftp server's public key goes in hostKey

Ok cool

Thanks @battk

its usually only an issue on old sftp servers

I'm gonna read up on this authentication model to better understand

if you use github, you probably want to learn faster, they are deprecating username/passwords access soon