diff --git a/tools/releasetools/merge_ota.py b/tools/releasetools/merge_ota.py
index 441312c..24d9ea9 100644
--- a/tools/releasetools/merge_ota.py
+++ b/tools/releasetools/merge_ota.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 import argparse
 import logging
-import shlex
 import struct
 import sys
 import update_payload
@@ -31,6 +30,7 @@
 
 from payload_signer import PayloadSigner
 from ota_utils import PayloadGenerator, METADATA_PROTO_NAME, FinalizeMetadata
+from ota_signing_utils import AddSigningArgumentParse
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
     ExtendPartitionUpdates(output_manifest.partitions, manifest.partitions)
     try:
       MergeDynamicPartitionMetadata(
-        output_manifest.dynamic_partition_metadata, manifest.dynamic_partition_metadata)
+          output_manifest.dynamic_partition_metadata, manifest.dynamic_partition_metadata)
     except DuplicatePartitionError:
       logger.error(
           "OTA %s has duplicate partition with some of the previous OTAs", payload.name)
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
               f"OTA {partition_to_ota[part].name} and {payload.name} have duplicating partition {part}")
         partition_to_ota[part] = payload
 
+
 def ApexInfo(file_paths):
   if len(file_paths) > 1:
     logger.info("More than one target file specified, will ignore "
@@ -201,33 +202,19 @@
       return apex_info_bytes
   return None
 
-def ParseSignerArgs(args):
-  if args is None:
-    return None
-  return shlex.split(args)
 
 def main(argv):
   parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Merge multiple partial OTAs')
   parser.add_argument('packages', type=str, nargs='+',
                       help='Paths to OTA packages to merge')
-  parser.add_argument('--package_key', type=str,
-                      help='Paths to private key for signing payload')
-  parser.add_argument('--search_path', type=str,
-                      help='Search path for framework/signapk.jar')
-  parser.add_argument('--payload_signer', type=str,
-                      help='Path to custom payload signer')
-  parser.add_argument('--payload_signer_args', type=ParseSignerArgs,
-                      help='Arguments for payload signer if necessary')
-  parser.add_argument('--payload_signer_maximum_signature_size', type=str,
-                      help='Maximum signature size (in bytes) that would be '
-                      'generated by the given payload signer')
   parser.add_argument('--output', type=str,
                       help='Paths to output merged ota', required=True)
   parser.add_argument('--metadata_ota', type=str,
                       help='Output zip will use build metadata from this OTA package, if unspecified, use the last OTA package in merge list')
-  parser.add_argument('--private_key_suffix', type=str,
-                      help='Suffix to be appended to package_key path', default=".pk8")
-  parser.add_argument('-v', action="store_true", help="Enable verbose logging", dest="verbose")
+  parser.add_argument('-v', action="store_true",
+                      help="Enable verbose logging", dest="verbose")
+  AddSigningArgumentParse(parser)
+
   parser.epilog = ('This tool can also be used to resign a regular OTA. For a single regular OTA, '
                    'apex_info.pb will be written to output. When merging multiple OTAs, '
                    'apex_info.pb will not be written.')
@@ -301,8 +288,6 @@
   return 0
 
 
-
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   logging.basicConfig()
   sys.exit(main(sys.argv))