diff --git a/scripts/imgtool/image.py b/scripts/imgtool/image.py
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+"""
+Image signing and management.
+"""
+
+from . import version as versmod
+import hashlib
+import struct
+
+IMAGE_MAGIC = 0x96f3b83c
+IMAGE_HEADER_SIZE = 32
+
+# Image header flags.
+IMAGE_F = {
+        'PIC':                   0x0000001,
+        'SHA256':                0x0000002,
+        'PKCS15_RSA2048_SHA256': 0x0000004,
+        'ECDSA224_SHA256':       0x0000008,
+        'NON_BOOTABLE':          0x0000010,
+        'ECDSA256_SHA256':       0x0000020, }
+
+TLV_VALUES = {
+        'SHA256': 1,
+        'RSA2048': 2,
+        'ECDSA224': 3,
+        'ECDSA256': 4, }
+
+TLV_HEADER_SIZE = 4
+
+# Sizes of the image trailer, depending on image alignment.
+trailer_sizes = {
+        1: 402,
+        2: 788,
+        4: 1560,
+        8: 3104, }
+
+boot_magic = bytes([
+    0x77, 0xc2, 0x95, 0xf3,
+    0x60, 0xd2, 0xef, 0x7f,
+    0x35, 0x52, 0x50, 0x0f,
+    0x2c, 0xb6, 0x79, 0x80, ])
+
+class TLV():
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.buf = bytearray()
+
+    def add(self, kind, payload):
+        """Add a TLV record.  Kind should be a string found in TLV_VALUES above."""
+        buf = struct.pack('<BBH', TLV_VALUES[kind], 0, len(payload))
+        self.buf += buf
+        self.buf += payload
+
+    def get(self):
+        return bytes(self.buf)
+
+class Image():
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, path, **kwargs):
+        """Load an image from a given file"""
+        with open(path, 'rb') as f:
+            payload = f.read()
+        obj = cls(**kwargs)
+        obj.payload = payload
+        obj.check()
+        return obj
+
+    def __init__(self, version=None, header_size=IMAGE_HEADER_SIZE, pad=0):
+        self.version = version or versmod.decode_version("0")
+        self.header_size = header_size or IMAGE_HEADER_SIZE
+        self.pad = pad
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "<Image version={}, header_size={}, pad={}, payloadlen=0x{:x}>".format(
+                self.version,
+                self.header_size,
+                self.pad,
+                len(self.payload))
+
+    def save(self, path):
+        with open(path, 'wb') as f:
+            f.write(self.payload)
+
+    def check(self):
+        """Perform some sanity checking of the image."""
+        # If there is a header requested, make sure that the image
+        # starts with all zeros.
+        if self.header_size > 0:
+            if any(v != 0 for v in self.payload[0:self.header_size]):
+                raise Exception("Padding requested, but image does not start with zeros")
+
+    def sign(self, key):
+        self.add_header(key)
+
+        tlv = TLV()
+
+        # Note that ecdsa wants to do the hashing itself, which means
+        # we get to hash it twice.
+        sha = hashlib.sha256()
+        sha.update(self.payload)
+        digest = sha.digest()
+
+        tlv.add('SHA256', digest)
+
+        sig = key.sign(self.payload)
+        tlv.add(key.sig_tlv(), sig)
+
+        self.payload += tlv.get()
+
+    def add_header(self, key):
+        """Install the image header.
+
+        The key is needed to know the type of signature, and
+        approximate the size of the signature."""
+
+        flags = IMAGE_F[key.sig_type()]
+        tlvsz = 0
+        tlvsz += TLV_HEADER_SIZE + key.sig_len()
+
+        flags |= IMAGE_F['SHA256']
+        tlvsz += 4 + hashlib.sha256().digest_size
+
+        fmt = ('<' +
+            # type ImageHdr struct {
+            'I' +   # Magic uint32
+            'H' +   # TlvSz uint16
+            'B' +   # KeyId uint8
+            'B' +   # Pad1  uint8
+            'H' +   # HdrSz uint16
+            'H' +   # Pad2  uint16
+            'I' +   # ImgSz uint32
+            'I' +   # Flags uint32
+            'BBHI' + # Vers  ImageVersion
+            'I'     # Pad3  uint32
+            ) # }
+        assert struct.calcsize(fmt) == IMAGE_HEADER_SIZE
+        header = struct.pack(fmt,
+                IMAGE_MAGIC,
+                tlvsz, # TlvSz
+                0, # KeyId (TODO: allow other ids)
+                0,  # Pad1
+                self.header_size,
+                0, # Pad2
+                len(self.payload) - self.header_size, # ImageSz
+                flags, # Flags
+                self.version.major,
+                self.version.minor or 0,
+                self.version.revision or 0,
+                self.version.build or 0,
+                0) # Pad3
+        self.payload = bytearray(self.payload)
+        self.payload[:len(header)] = header
+
+    def pad_to(self, size, align):
+        """Pad the image to the given size, with the given flash alignment."""
+        tsize = trailer_sizes[align]
+        padding = size - (len(self.payload) + tsize)
+        if padding < 0:
+            msg = "Image size (0x{:x}) + trailer (0x{:x}) exceeds requested size 0x{:x}".format(
+                    len(self.payload), tsize, size)
+            raise Exception(msg)
+        pbytes = b'\xff' * padding
+        pbytes += boot_magic
+        pbytes += b'\xff' * (tsize - len(boot_magic))
+        self.payload += pbytes