docs: Change name of padding arguments
To be squashed Signed-off-by: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
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@ -32,10 +32,11 @@ There are a couple of ways to fix this:
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This document proposes a multi-stage approach, to give a transition
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period.
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- First, add a `--valid-ecdsa` argument to the sign command in
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- First, add a `--no-pad-sig` argument to the sign command in
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`imgtool.py`. Without this, the images will be padded with the
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existing scheme, and with the argument, the ecdsa will be encoded
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without any padding.
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without any padding. The `--pad-sig` argument will also be
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accepted, but this will initially be the default.
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- MCUboot will be modified to allow unpadded signatures right away.
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The existing EC256 implementations will still work (with or
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@ -43,19 +44,19 @@ period.
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accepting padded and unpadded signatures.
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- An mbed TLS implementation of EC256 can be added, but will require
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the `--valid-ecdsa` signature to be able to boot all generated
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the `--no-pad-sig` signature to be able to boot all generated
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images (without the argument 3 of out 4 images generated will have
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padding, and be considered invalid).
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After one or more MCUboot release cycles, and announcements over
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relevant channels, the arguments to `imgtool.py` will change:
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- `--valid-ecdsa` will still be accepted, but have no effect.
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- `--no-pad-sig` will still be accepted, but have no effect.
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- `--invalid-ecdsa` will now bring back the old padding behavior.
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- `--pad-sig` will now bring back the old padding behavior.
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This will require a change to any scripts that are relying on this
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behavior, but not specifying a specific version of imgtool.
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This will require a change to any scripts that are relying on a
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default, but not specifying a specific version of imgtool.
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The signature generation in the simulator can be changed at the same
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time the boot code begins to accept unpadded signatures. The sim is
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