From 525c78a2c3a1da5b673d11478d3b1693a7579508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:39:59 +0100
Subject: Remove references to old-school signing

---
 doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml | 18 ------------------
 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/manual/command-ref')

diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml
index 5848b84a0173..97e261ae993d 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
       <arg choice='plain'><option>--to</option></arg>
       <arg choice='plain'><option>--from</option></arg>
     </group>
-    <arg><option>--sign</option></arg>
     <arg><option>--gzip</option></arg>
     <!--
     <arg><option>- -show-progress</option></arg>
@@ -87,23 +86,6 @@ those paths.  If this bothers you, use
 
   </varlistentry>
 
-  <varlistentry><term><option>--sign</option></term>
-
-    <listitem><para>Let the sending machine cryptographically sign the
-    dump of each path with the key in
-    <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/signing-key.sec</filename>.
-    If the user on the target machine does not have direct access to
-    the Nix store (i.e., if the target machine has a multi-user Nix
-    installation), then the target machine will check the dump against
-    <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/signing-key.pub</filename>
-    before unpacking it in its Nix store.  This allows secure sharing
-    of store paths between untrusted users on two machines, provided
-    that there is a trust relation between the Nix installations on
-    both machines (namely, they have matching public/secret
-    keys).</para></listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
   <varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option></term>
 
     <listitem><para>Enable compression of the SSH
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