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manpages: discuss about USK, SSK in fcpgenkey (1)
Add a discussion about the sameness of USK and SSK keys into the manpage for fcpgenkey as this is one of the things I found harder to understand as a newbie.
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fcpgenkey is a simple command\-line FCP client program for generating | ||
new Freenet SSK@ or USK@ public/private keypairs. | ||
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The keypair generated is written to standard output stream, with | ||
the public key, then a newline, then the private key. | ||
The keypair generated is written to standard output stream as SSK@ | ||
keys, with the public key, then a newline, then the private key. | ||
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.SH "Equivalence between SSKs and USKs" | ||
.LP | ||
USK@ are really just a user-friendly wrapper around SSK@, which hide | ||
the process of searching for more recent versions of a site. Any | ||
address written using an USK@ key can also be written using an SSK@ | ||
key. | ||
.TP | ||
.B | ||
Syntax of SSK@ key: | ||
SSK@<key>/<name_of_site>-<version#>/ | ||
.TP | ||
.B | ||
Syntax of USK@ key: | ||
USK@<key>/<name_of_site>/<version#>/ | ||
.TP | ||
.B | ||
These two keys are completely equivalent and can be inserted as either one: | ||
[email protected]/freenetdocwiki/17/ | ||
[email protected]/freenetdocwiki-17/ | ||
.SH "OPTIONS" | ||
.LP | ||
.TP | ||
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