CURVEDNS-KEYGEN(1)

✨ NAME ✨

curvedns-keygen — generates a key pair for curvedns 💖

okay bestie so this is the lil key-factory for curvedns(8), and honestly? she's iconic. 🔑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

curvedns-keygen

curvedns-keygen path-of-CurveDNS-installation
authoritative-name-server-name

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So curvedns-keygen(1) makes you a keypair that you then go use with curvedns(8). It's giving two-different-girls energy, because you can run this command in two totally different forms. 💅

Form one, the no-args era. Run curvedns-keygen all by itself, no parameters, no drama, and she just prints the keys straight to standard output. The page says an example output looks as follows — and then… doesn't show you one 🙈. Not me pointing that out, but yeah, the example is a ghost. Still, you get the vibe: keys, on your stdout, immediately.

Form two, the put-it-in-a-file era. Here, curvedns-keygen writes the secret key into a file that's suitable for use with the daemontools service manager, and that file lives in a subdirectory of path-of-CurveDNS-installation. And she doesn't just dump raw key material on you — no ma'am — she formats the output so it already includes the authoritative-name-server-name combined with the DNSCurve public key, all ready to be published in the NS set of a DNS zone. So you can literally copy-paste it into your zone. Ate. ✨

Note: on Debian, bestie, you normally don't need to run this command at all — a key is automatically generated during package installation. For more info, peep /usr/share/doc/curvedns/README.Debian 👑

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💜 MANPAGE AUTHOR 💜

Stephane Neveu stefneveu@gmail.com — thank you for the lore, king 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Installation and configuration from github
• https://github.com/curvedns/curvedns/blob/master/INSTALL.md

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and that's the whole page, fr fr 💖 this was CURVEDNS-KEYGEN(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated July 2026 — go forth and generate those keys, you gorgeous genius, slay 🌈🎀🌟