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I'm trying to use the SSH protocol at a low level (i.e. I don't want to start a shell or anything, I just want to pass data). Thus, I am using Paramiko's Transport class directly. I've got the server side done, but now I'm hitting a wall over something silly. For the client to connect to the server, the Transport 's connect method takes as two PKey objects as argument: The private key of the client ( pkey ), and the public key of the server ( hostkey ). The PKey class is described as "Base class for public keys". Yet the problem is that I can't figure out how to create such a PKey object out of just an ssh public key (i.e. a string ssh-whatever AAblablabla ). It has methods for building such an object out of a private key, but obviously I don't want the client to know the server's private key. I feel like I'm overlooking something simple, but I can't find info on doing that on the web; most tutorials out there use the higher-level SSHClient class which loads the system's known_hosts keys.

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