windows - 'ssh-keygen' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I run git push -u origin master

It tells me that "Permission denied (public key) fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"

Then I looked up on the internet and found that I had to generate an ssh key for my account on GitHub. However, upon doing so, when I tried to do ssh-keygen -t rsa "[email protected]" it simply said ssh-keygen is not recognized. I tried doing mkdir C:ssh but that didn't work. If it helps I'm using Ruby Rails and I'm on a Windows computer. Could anyone help me?

Answer 1

2012:
ssh-keygen.exe is part of msysgit:

 C:pathomsysgit1.7.11inssh-keygen.exe

if your %PATH% includes C:pathomsysgit1.7.11in, you will have ssh-keygen.

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Update 2015:
ssh-keygen.exe is part of Git For Windows, whose releases include PortableGit-2.4.3.1-2nd-release-candidate-64-bit.7z

c:pathoPortableGit-2.4.3.1-2nd-release-candidate-64-bitusrinssh-keygen.exe

That means the %PATH% must include c:pathoPortableGit-2.4.3.1-2nd-release-candidate-64-bitusrin (without the ssh-keygen.exe)

As I explained before, Git for Windows will soon phase out msysgit.
I detailed in "Why is it that if you download Git 2.0 from the net, you always get a 1.9.4 installer package?" how this new version is based on the more recent msys2 project.