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signedpkg file format
The signedpkg file format defines a deployment archive, which contains these files in its main directory:
- distribution archive in a file named DIST.A
- distribution key in a file named DIST.KEY
- distribution signature in a file named DIST.SIG
To use a signedpkg the user needs:
- public key part of the deployment key
- private key part of the provisioning key
The signedpkg file format supports all archive file formats, which are supported by libarchive. When unsure use the ZIP archive file format.
distribution archive
The distribution archive contains a file and folder structure of files being deployed. In the main directory there are only folders. The folder names in the main directory mark symbolic installation locations, which are user dependent.
In the p≡p provisioning there may be up to two such installation locations or exactly one of them:
- PER_USER_DIRECTORY
- PER_MACHINE_DIRECTORY
All content is placed either in these directories or in subdirectories to these directories, and is installed into locations relative to these.
The distribution archive is encrypted with the distribution key.
distribution key
The distribution key is the AES<256> key, with which the distribution archive is encrypted using GCM. DIST.KEY contains the distribution key encrypted with the provisioning key using RSA-OAEP.
distribution signature
The distribution signature is the ed25519 detached signature of the distribution archive file DIST.A using the deployment key.
deployment key
The deployment key is an ed25519 keypair stored in a private key part and a BER encoded public key part.
The private key is used by the factory. The public key is used by the deployment target.
provisioning key
The provisioning key is an RSA keypair stored in a private key part and a BER encoded public key part.
The private key is used by the deployment target. The public key is used by the factory.