[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/8] l2fwd-crypto: clarify key parsing in help

Pablo de Lara pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com
Thu Mar 31 11:32:12 CEST 2016


Cipher/Auth keys, AAD and IV must be passed from command line
with ":" between bytes, but help was not clarifying that.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
---
 examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c b/examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c
index c561270..6a28448 100644
--- a/examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c
+++ b/examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c
@@ -804,16 +804,16 @@ l2fwd_crypto_usage(const char *prgname)
 
 		"  --cipher_algo ALGO\n"
 		"  --cipher_op ENCRYPT / DECRYPT\n"
-		"  --cipher_key KEY\n"
+		"  --cipher_key KEY (bytes separated with \":\")\n"
 		"  --cipher_key_random_size SIZE: size of cipher key when generated randomly\n"
-		"  --iv IV\n"
+		"  --iv IV (bytes separated with \":\")\n"
 		"  --iv_random_size SIZE: size of IV when generated randomly\n"
 
 		"  --auth_algo ALGO\n"
 		"  --auth_op GENERATE / VERIFY\n"
-		"  --auth_key KEY\n"
+		"  --auth_key KEY (bytes separated with \":\")\n"
 		"  --auth_key_random_size SIZE: size of auth key when generated randomly\n"
-		"  --aad AAD\n"
+		"  --aad AAD (bytes separated with \":\")\n"
 		"  --aad_random_size SIZE: size of AAD when generated randomly\n"
 		"  --digest_size SIZE: size of digest to be generated/verified\n"
 
-- 
2.5.5



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