Add an export_signing_key script (#6546)

I want to do some key rotation, and it is silly that we don't have a way to do
this.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml
index 1787248f53..e3b05423b8 100644
--- a/docs/sample_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml
@@ -1122,14 +1122,19 @@ metrics_flags:
 signing_key_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.signing.key"
 
 # The keys that the server used to sign messages with but won't use
-# to sign new messages. E.g. it has lost its private key
-#
-#old_signing_keys:
-#  "ed25519:auto":
-#    # Base64 encoded public key
-#    key: "The public part of your old signing key."
-#    # Millisecond POSIX timestamp when the key expired.
-#    expired_ts: 123456789123
+# to sign new messages.
+#
+old_signing_keys:
+  # For each key, `key` should be the base64-encoded public key, and
+  # `expired_ts`should be the time (in milliseconds since the unix epoch) that
+  # it was last used.
+  #
+  # It is possible to build an entry from an old signing.key file using the
+  # `export_signing_key` script which is provided with synapse.
+  #
+  # For example:
+  #
+  #"ed25519:id": { key: "base64string", expired_ts: 123456789123 }
 
 # How long key response published by this server is valid for.
 # Used to set the valid_until_ts in /key/v2 APIs.