[U-Boot] [PATCH] doc: clarify openssl-based key and certificate generation process

* [U-Boot] [PATCH] doc: clarify openssl-based key and certificate generation process
@ 2016-03-23 23:24 Andreas Dannenberg
  2016-04-02  1:56 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Dannenberg @ 2016-03-23 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Add some basic clarification that the dev.key file generated by OpenSSL
contains both the public and private key, and further highlight that
the certificate generated here contains the public key only.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenberg@ti.com>
---
 doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt b/doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt
index b2f89fc..e487401 100644
--- a/doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt
+++ b/doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ placed alongside rsa.c, and its functions added to the table in image-sig.c
 also.
 
 
-Creating an RSA key and certificate
------------------------------------
-To create a new public key, size 2048 bits:
+Creating an RSA key pair and certificate
+----------------------------------------
+To create a new public/private key pair, size 2048 bits:
 
 $ openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out keys/dev.key \
     -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048 -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_pubexp:65537
 
-To create a certificate for this:
+To create a certificate for this containing the public key:
 
 $ openssl req -batch -new -x509 -key keys/dev.key -out keys/dev.crt
 
-- 
2.6.4

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