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From the article:

> (The problem is not with how the key was originally generated; it doesn't matter whether it came from PuTTYgen or somewhere else. What matters is whether it was ever used with PuTTY or Pageant.)




Smartcards do signing operations on the card itself, so it doesn't apply in this case.


Thanks for pointing this out. I know this but I didn't clarify it in my post.




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