diff --git a/doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt b/doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt index b2f89fcc65..e4874018fa 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