ECDSAKEYGEN(1)

💖 ECDSAKEYGEN 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about ecdsakeygen — that's the ECDSA key generation tool, and honestly? she's small but she's mighty 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ecdsakeygen — ECDSA key generation 🔑

like literally the whole job is making keys. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ecdsakeygen [-s] [-p] [-h]

that's it, that's the whole vibe check. three little flags, no cap 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so this whole thing lives under the ecdsautils umbrella 🌂 — a lil family of tools, and this is the one that handles your key business.

here's what the flags do, bestie, don't skip this part:

• -s — generate a new secret and yeet it to stdout ✨ like, a brand new secret key just shows up in your terminal. iconic.
• -p — output the public key of the secret that's being read from stdin 🫶 so you feed her a secret, she gives you back the matching public half. it's giving ✨duality✨
• -h — display this short help and exit 🙈 the classic "wait what were the flags again" button. she's helpful, she's brief, she leaves immediately. queen behavior.

lowkey important: -s writes to stdout, and -p reads from stdin. two different directions, two different jobs. don't mix 'em up or it's gonna be confusing 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the full documentation for ecdsakeygen is in the source at https://github.com/tcatm/ecdsautils — go read it, iykyk 📚💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nils Schneider — the legend herself (well, himself, but the energy is legendary) ⭐

and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🎀 this page came to you courtesy of ECDSA Utils, dated June 2014 🌸 so yeah she's been around a minute, but she still slays. go generate some keys. periodt. 💖✨