diff --git a/utils/generate_keys.sh b/utils/generate_keys.sh
index ebc2283b6..bd79ea43e 100755
--- a/utils/generate_keys.sh
+++ b/utils/generate_keys.sh
@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@ mkdir -p ssh
 mv private-key.pem ssh/id_rsa # ssh private key
 mv public_ssh ssh/id_rsa.pub # ssh public key
 rm certificate.pem # use certificate.pfx
+echo Basic Authentication password:
+cat ssh/id_rsa | base64 -w 0 | md5sum | cut -d " " -f1 \
+    | python -c 'import sys;print sys.stdin.read().rstrip("\r\n").decode("hex")' | base64