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Just some housekeeping on the readme to make it more accurate:

  • This tool doesn't actually do any management or generation of key material--only the seed material.
  • Sunlight v0.9.0 and above generates a ML-DSA-44 key to sign checkpoints.

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# sunlight-secretmanager

sunlight-secretmanager is a command-line tool to manage a
[Sunlight](https://sunlight.dev/) CT Log's private key material.

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I think this undersells it a bit: The different format private keys are fundamentally derived from this, and we should be clear that the "seed material", fundamentally, is the private key

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Could you suggest an alternative wording? I'm just trying to avoid suggesting the sunlight-secretmanager generates or manages the actual private key files, which implies a very specific thing (i.e. a PEM- or DER-encoded file in the standard format).

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