use winSCP.com utility to convert private key to ppk to launch winSCP #7398
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Fixes #7204
Using winSCP.com utility that comes with winSCP to convert private key to ppk for winSCP connection for it's support of many different types of key types(RSA, DSA, ECDSA, Ed25519).
As an additional improvement it could show error message in case something goes wrong in a popup/modal rather than just in the console, but I didn't make that more involved change.
Tested with rsa, ecdsa and ed25519 keys in different formats, both password protected and passwordless(sshpk takes care of unencrypting the key beforehand).
Drop node-forge dependency as redundant.