jpillora / jpillora/chisel

--keyfile documentation is incorrect

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Description

The --keyfile expects a file containing a chiselKey (ECDSA key starting with "ck-") or the chiselKey itself as an argument.

Documentation indicated you could supplying it a base64 encoded version of chiselKey, but that's not what the code expects today at least.

Pull request: https://github.com/jpillora/chisel/pull/461

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Research direction

Review the documentation for the --keyfile option and compare it with the behavior described in pull request #461. Remove or correct the claim that a base64-encoded chiselKey is accepted; done when the documentation matches the accepted file and argument forms.

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Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Activity status
Stale
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Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
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