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| author | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-12-31 04:03:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-12-31 04:03:24 +0000 |
| commit | 98590856f0040dfc1f6dec213e1fc6250c2e2de3 (patch) | |
| tree | 79f55ffd93502c8c0dcc7350a03429886683249f | |
| parent | 5ed81e705fd461ffd3afa292b21b0d09aece523b (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/signify/signify.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/signify/signify.1 b/usr.bin/signify/signify.1 index 8021e15056b..87c5c170502 100644 --- a/usr.bin/signify/signify.1 +++ b/usr.bin/signify/signify.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: signify.1,v 1.1 2013/12/31 03:03:32 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: signify.1,v 1.2 2013/12/31 04:03:23 tedu Exp $ .\" .\"Copyright (c) 2013 Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org> .\"Copyright (c) 2013 Ted Unangst <tedu@openbsd.org> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Secret (private) key produced by and used by .Ar sign to sign a message. -.It Fl V generate|sign|verify +.It Fl V Ar generate|sign|verify Select the desired operation. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS @@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ Sign a file, specifying signature name: .Dl "$ signify -S key.sec -I message.txt -O msg.sig -V sign" Verify a signature, using the default signature name: .Dl "$ signify -P key.pub -I generalsorders.txt -V verify" +.Sh FILES +The key and signature files created by +.Nm +have the same format. +The first line of the file is a free form text comment that may be edited, +so long as it does not exceed a single line. +The second line of the file is the actual key or signature base64 encoded. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cmp 1 , .Xr sha256 1 , |