ECDSASIGN(1)

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🎀 ECDSASIGN(1) 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for ecdsasign, and it lives in the User Commands part of the manual. it's giving "one job, done well," and honestly? we love that for it. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

ecdsasign — ECDSA document signing. that's it, that's the whole name section, she's concise. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ecdsasign document.txt < filewithsecret [-s] [-p] [-h]

so you pass the document as an argument, and the secret comes in through stdin via a redirect from a file. and there's three little flags hanging out at the end: -s, -p, and -h. iykyk. 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so ecdsautils reads the secret from stdin and signs a single document — the one you passed as an argument. one doc, one signature, no chaos. ✨

and here's the fun part: the document gets changed. the signature is added at the bottom of the file, separated by a dashed line. so like, don't be surprised when your file comes back with a little something extra at the end, that's the whole point, that's the slay. 💅

the absolute best part?? multiple individuals can sign a single document. it's a group chat. it's a group project that actually works. everybody gets a line, everybody's signature is valid, no one is editing anyone else's paragraph. periodt. 🫶

and then there's this line, which is just sitting here in the middle of the description like it wandered in from somewhere else: display this short help and exit. yeah. that's what it says. it's a little unhinged of the page to be honest, but we keep every detail here, so here it is, right where the original put it. 😭

ngl bestie, this section is short but it is doing a LOT. reread it twice before you pipe anything anywhere. 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the full documentation for ecdsakeygen is in the source at:

https://github.com/tcatm/ecdsautils

yes, ecdsakeygen, not ecdsasign — that's what the page says and i am not about to gaslight you. go read the source, it's all there. ⭐

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Nils Schneider 💖

that's the whole page!! and for the cute sign-off: this bad boy is from ECDSA Utils, dated June 2014, and its manual-page name is ECDSASIGN(1). iconic, timeless, still signing documents in 2014's best outfit. mwah. 💋✨🎀

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