CREATEEK(1)

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version 1045 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

✨ NAME ✨

createek — runs the createek demo, bestie 💖

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so first thing's first, and it's kind of a jumpscare: --version-string=v1045 is not a valid option. Like, do not come in here with that. Not the vibe. 🙈

Then it's just:

createek

And what it actually does? It parses and prints the various EK NV indexes specified by the IWG, and it creates a primary key based on the EK NV indexes. That's the whole gig, no cap. 💅

Here's your little flag family, all together like a group chat:

  • -te — print EK Template 🧚
  • -no — print EK nonce 🌸
  • -ce — print EK certificate 🎀
  • -cp — CreatePrimary using the EK template and EK nonce 👑

And then some bracketed optional goodness:

  • [-noflush — do not flush the primary key after validation
  • [-root filename — validate EK certificates against the root )]
About that filename: it contains a list of PEM certificate filenames, one per line, and the list may contain up to 100 certificates. One hundred. That's the cap. Don't push it. 🍓
  • -alg — takes either rsa or ec

And also, while we're doing warnings: --version is not a valid option either. Nope. Not a thing. 😭

Now here's the part where the page just… says all of it again. Same energy, same facts, second time around:

createek

Parses and prints the various EK NV indexes specified by the IWG. Creates a primary key based on the EK NV indexes.

  • -te — print EK Template
  • -no — print EK nonce
  • -ce — print EK certificate
  • -cp — CreatePrimary using the EK template and EK nonce
  • [-noflush — do not flush the primary key after validation
  • [-root filename — validate EK certificates against the root )]
    • filename contains a list of PEM certificate filenames, one per line, and the list may contain up to 100 certificates
  • -alg — rsa or ec

Yeah. It really does repeat itself. Iconic of it, honestly. 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

The full documentation for createek is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and createek programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info createek

should give you access to the complete manual. Go read it, it's giving ✨ thorough ✨.

That's the whole thing, bestie — this was createek, sitting in the User Commands manual section, from the createek source, dated July 2017, footer-stamped CREATEEK(1). Go forth and parse those EK NV indexes. 🫶

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