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diff --git a/man/8/INDEX b/man/8/INDEX index c520eacb..3c633861 100644 --- a/man/8/INDEX +++ b/man/8/INDEX @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ intro 0intro +ai2key ai2key applylog applylog updatelog applylog bootpd bootpd @@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ csquery cs dhcp dhcp dns dns dnsquery dns +dsagen ai2key fpgaload fpgaload ftl ftl getauthinfo getauthinfo @@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ prep prep rdbgsrv rdbgsrv register register rip rip +rsagen ai2key rstyxd rstyxd styxd rstyxd shutdown shutdown diff --git a/man/8/ai2key b/man/8/ai2key new file mode 100644 index 00000000..99149b94 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/8/ai2key @@ -0,0 +1,262 @@ +.TH AI2KEY 8 +.SH NAME +ai2key, dsagen, rsagen \- generate and reformat public keys +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ai2key +[ +.BI -t " tag" +] +.I keyfile +... +.P +.B dsagen +[ +.BI -t " tag" +] +.PP +.B rsagen +[ +.BI -b " nbits" +] [ +.BI -t " tag" +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IR Factotum (4) +represents public keys as lists of attribute-value pairs, each key on a single line prefixed with the string +.BR key . +.PP +.I Ai2key +converts the original Inferno representation of authentication data, +in the format defined for +.B authinfo +by +.IR keytext (6), +to an attribute-value format accepted by +.IR factotum (4) +for the +.B infauth +authentication protocol. +For each +.I keyfile +it writes a single line on standard output, containing +the following fields: +.IP +.EX +.fi +.ti -3n +key proto=infauth +[ +.I tag +] +.BI "sigalg=" pkalg - hashalg +[ +.BI dom= host +] +.BI server= host +[ +.BI service= svc +] +.BI "user=" name +.BI "signer=" name +.BI "pk=" pk +.BI "!sk=" sk +.BI spk= pk +.BI cert= cert +.BI dh-alpha= hex +.BI dh-p= hex +.EE +.PP +where +.RS +.TP 15n +.I pkalg +is +.BR dsa , +.B elgamal +or +.BR rsa +.PD 0 +.ns +.TP +.I hashalg +is +.B md5 +or +.BR sha1 +.br +.ns +.TP +.B user +is the user name associated with the key, as vouched for by the supporting +certificate +.BR cert +.br +.ns +.TP +.B signer +is the user name associated with the key that signed the certificate +.br +.ns +.TP +.B pk +is the user's public key +.br +.ns +.TP +.B !sk +is the user's private (secret) key +.br +.ns +.TP +.B spk +is the signer's public key +.br +.ns +.TP +.B cert +is the +.I certificate +.br +.ns +.TP +.BR dh-alpha ,\ dh-p +are the Diffie-Hellman parameters shared by the user and file servers. +.RE +.PD +.PP +The key is tagged by one or more of +.BR dom , +.B server +and +.BR service , +derived from the file name +.IR keyfile . +The server is +.RB ` * ' +if +.I keyfile +is +.BR default . +Otherwise +.I keyfile +has the form +.IP +[ +.IB net ! +] +.I host +[ +.BI ! srv +] +.PP +and +.B server +and +.B service +are set accordingly; +.B dom +is set if +.I host +looks like a domain name. +Key and certificate values have the form defined in +.IR keytext (6); +.I hex +is a large number in hexadecimal. +.PP +.I Dsagen +prints a randomly-generated DSA private key using the NIST-recommended algorithm. +If +.I tag +text is specified, it is printed after the +.B proto +attribute-value pair. +Typically, +.I tag +is a sequence of attribute-value comments describing the key. +A DSA key has the following attributes +.RS +.TP 8n +.B p +prime public modulus +.PD 0 +.TP +.B q +prime group order; divides +.BR p -1 +.TP +.B alpha +group generator +.TP +.B key +.BR alpha ^ !secret +mod +.B p +.TP +.B !secret +the secret exponent +.RE +.PD +.PP +.I Rsagen +prints a randomly generated RSA private key +whose +.B n +has exactly +.I nbits +(default 1024) +significant bits. +The key has the following attributes: +.RS +.TP +.B size +the number of significant bits in +.B n +.PD 0 +.TP +.B ek +the encryption exponent +.TP +.B n +the product of +.B !p +and +.B !q +.TP +.B !dk +the decryption exponent +.TP +.B !p +a large prime +.TP +.B !q +another large prime +.TP +.B "!kp\fR, \fL!kq\fR, \fL!c2 +parameters derived from the other attributes, cached to speed decryption +.RE +.PD +.PP +All the numbers in +.I dsagen +and +.I rsagen +output are in hexadecimal except RSA's +.BR size , +which is decimal. +A public key omits the attributes beginning with +.L ! . +A key may have other attributes as well, for example a +.B service +attribute identifying how this key is typically used, +but to these utilities such attributes are merely comments. +They can be provided in a +.I tag +argument. +.SH SOURCE +.B /appl/cmd/auth/ai2key.b +.br +.B /appl/cmd/auth/dsagen.b +.br +.B /appl/cmd/auth/rsagen.b +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR factotum (4) |
