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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2017-08-06 17:51:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> | 2017-08-08 10:36:30 +0200 |
| commit | d681a5f1e6b6231a2303415b2364fd3e98d82d74 (patch) | |
| tree | 23e05d4362f302f146bb8fc0222eefe0dc566fc3 /src | |
| parent | 8f2fdf61640e3a896bfe72ce72c8d8874f80457d (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-d681a5f1e6b6231a2303415b2364fd3e98d82d74.tar.gz | |
doc update
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/certtool-args.def | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/certtool-args.def b/src/certtool-args.def index 912810cf1a..1d692ec48b 100644 --- a/src/certtool-args.def +++ b/src/certtool-args.def @@ -60,7 +60,14 @@ flag = { flag = { name = provable; descrip = "Generate a private key or parameters from a seed using a provable method"; - doc = "This will use the FIPS-186-4 algorithms (i.e., Shawe-Taylor) for provable key generation. When specified the private keys or parameters will be generated from a seed, and can be proven to be correctly generated from the seed. You may specify --seed or allow GnuTLS to generate one (recommended). This option can be combined with --generate-privkey or --generate-dh-params."; + doc = "This will use the FIPS-186-4 algorithms (i.e., Shawe-Taylor) for provable key generation. +When specified the private keys or parameters will be generated from a seed, and can be +later validated with --verify-provable-privkey to be correctly generated from the seed. You may +specify --seed or allow GnuTLS to generate one (recommended). This option can be combined with +--generate-privkey or --generate-dh-params. + +That option applies to RSA and DSA keys. On the DSA keys the PQG parameters +are generated using the seed, and on RSA the two primes."; }; flag = { |