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+# Flamenco Server JWT keys
+
+To generate a keypair for `ES256`:
+
+    openssl ecparam -genkey -name prime256v1 -noout -out es256-private.pem
+    openssl ec -in es256-private.pem -pubout -out es256-public.pem