1.3 Customer Key Command

The customer-key command generates encrypted customer key files for all devices in the same family.

In the output file name, a suffix with the device name is added before ".cip" extension. The file is used by SAM-BA Loader to send the customer key to the device.

In the compressed archive of Secure SAM-BA Cipher, Microchip provides customer key file examples for all device families.

The command line written in the example below is applicable for all devices by replacing the device name by the targeted one.

This command line generates an encrypted customer key file for each product in the same family. The name of the device is added as a suffix before the “.cip” extension.

The license private key is used to check the license and decipher some sensitive data used during customer key message generation.