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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2017-08-06 17:51:15 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2017-08-08 10:36:30 +0200
commitd681a5f1e6b6231a2303415b2364fd3e98d82d74 (patch)
tree23e05d4362f302f146bb8fc0222eefe0dc566fc3
parent8f2fdf61640e3a896bfe72ce72c8d8874f80457d (diff)
downloadgnutls-d681a5f1e6b6231a2303415b2364fd3e98d82d74.tar.gz
doc update
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
-rw-r--r--src/certtool-args.def9
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ccd6f7a536..363fe754eb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
See the end for copying conditions.
+* Version 3.5.15 (unreleased)
+
+** certtool: Keys with provable RSA and DSA parameters are now only exported
+ in PKCS#8 form, following draft-mavrogiannopoulos-pkcs8-validated-parameters-00.txt.
+ This removes the need for a non-standard key format.
+
+
* Version 3.5.14 (released 2017-07-04)
** libgnutls: Handle specially HSMs which request explicit authentication.
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 = {