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ssh-keygen is not reading stdin to get an encryption password (or: what is ssh-askpass?)

You can instead generate the key using PuTTYgen, as dave_thompson_085 pointed out in the comments. Spoiler: you probably don't want to do this, as puttygen appears to have incomplete OpenSSH support. ...
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ssh-keygen is not reading stdin to get an encryption password (or: what is ssh-askpass?)

The way to provide the password is using -N: echo y| ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -a100 -N "$input" -f tmpkey Of course you should provide the variable input with content like yours: input=...
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How can my team use a single SuperPuTTY session file?

Having used the very old and unsupported PuTTY Connection Manager for years, I was highly annoyed that the corporate IT department software removed it. On reinstalling (copying exe) I then found the ...
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How can I set PuTTY's window title to the name of the loaded session?

If you use a recent version of bash, then you can use PROMPT_COMMAND to set the window title automatically, each time it displays a prompt. For e.g. PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s\007&...
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