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authorJochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de>2011-06-24 10:35:13 +0200
committerJochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de>2011-06-24 10:35:13 +0200
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rules files: added missing help texts
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@@ -34,19 +34,31 @@ config LSH_MAKESEED
bool
prompt "Install lsh-make-seed"
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ lsh-make-seed - Creates an initial random seed file for
+ the YARROW pseudorandomnessgenerator used by lsh.
-config LSH_KEYGEN
+config LSH_KEYGEN
bool
prompt "Install lsh-keygen"
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ lsh-keygen - Generates a keypair and write it on stdout.
+ Generates a new private key for the desired algorithm
+ and security level and write it on stdout.
+
+ You will usually want to pipe the new key into a program
+ like lsh-writekey, to split it into its private and public
+ parts, and optionally encrypt the private information.
config LSH_WRITEKEY
bool
prompt "Install lsh-writekey"
help
- FIXME: This item needs to be documented
+ lsh-writekey - Keypair split/store handler.
+ Splits a keypair in one private and one public file,
+ optionally encrypting the private file using a passphrase.
+
+ Common usage is to pipe the output from lsh-keygen into
+ this program.
endif