Bug#920215: certtool: improve documentation for values of --key-type

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Thu Jan 24 17:32:18 GMT 2019


Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 2019-01-22 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> Package: gnutls-bin
> Version: 3.6.5-2
> Severity: minor

> In certtool(1), it says:

>        --key-type=string
>               Specify the key type to use on key generation.

>               This option can be combined with --generate-privkey, to specify
>                   the key type to be generated. Valid options are, 'rsa',
>               'rsa-pss',

> there are more valid options than 'rsa' and 'rsa-pss' (e.g. i just
> tested, and 'ed25519' works fine), but those are the only two listed
> in the manpage.

Hello,

The (generated) manpage is misformatted, it has an apostroph at the
start of the following line.

cu Andreas

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