I'm an Eclipse user who's evaluating a switch to IntelliJ IDEA. I'm currently trying out IDEA 10.0.2. My operating system is Windows.

When working with Git over SSH, IDEA always asks me for password. I can't find any option in the settings to make it use public key authentication. As per [this post](http://blog.grumblesmurf.org/2010/10/using-ssh-private-keys-with-git-and.html), my key is in the `%USERPROFILE%\.ssh` directory and my `HOME` variable points to the same directory as `USERPROFILE`.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong and Googling for more details hasn't produced any results. Does anyone have any idea how to make IDEA use public key authentication?

**EDIT**: My key is password-protected.