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minisign
- Ask HN: What are your favorite tiny, single purpose tools?
- Minisign A dead simple tool to sign files and verify signatures
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PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless
There are alternatives, minisign and signify.
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Can a program be the only thing able to have access to a private key?
You don't have to attach identities to public and private keys. If all you need it for is signing, then check out minisign.
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How should I encrypt files for sharing over the internet?
If you need signatures, minisign is a similar hard-to-misuse program.
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Beginner: how to do basic cryptography for a blog
In your case, use a tool such as https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/ to do signing/verification. GPG is another choice which is very common. It will produce a "signature" which can be embedded alongside your posts verifying that the text of the post was endorsed by someone bearing the given public key.
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Is it worth it to make the move to ProtonMail & VPN?
Claiming it's not ancient because Linux desktop distributions still use it for signing packages is a very odd argument. Most Cryptography experts (note: I'm not talking about programmers, IT professionals or people who know a thing or two about cryptography, I mean actual cryptographers) would agree that we should start using something like signify or minisign instead of the bloated mess that is GPG for signing package repositories.
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Hacker News top posts: Dec 23, 2021
minisign\ (5 comments)
- minisign
- Show HN: Pagesign – A Python Wrapper for Age and Minisign
mkcert
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HTTPS on Localhost with Next.js
The experimental HTTPS flag relies on mkcert, designed for a single development system. If you run a Docker container, the flag won’t configure your local browser to trust its certificate.
- Mkcert: Simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates
- Mkcert: Simple tool to make locally trusted dev certificates names you'd like
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You Can't Follow Me
The author mentions difficulties with HTTPS and trying stuff locally.
I've had some success with mkcert [1] to easily create certificates trusted by browsers, I can suggest to look into this. You are your own root CA, I think it can work without an internet connection.
[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/
- SSL Certificates for Home Network
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Simplifying Localhost HTTPS Setup with mkcert and stunnel
Solution: mkcert – Your Zero-Configuration HTTPS Enabler Meet mkcert, a user-friendly, zero-configuration tool designed for creating locally-trusted development certificates. Find it on its GitHub page and follow the instructions tailored for your operating system. For Mac users employing Homebrew, simply execute the following commands in your terminal:
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10 reasons you should quit your HTTP client
Well, Certifi does not ship with your company's certificates! So requesting internal services may come with additional painful extra steps! Also for a local development environment that uses mkcert for example!
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Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS
My project, getlocalcert.net[1] may be the one you're thinking of.
Since I'm also building in this space, I'll give my perspective. Local certificate generation is complicated. If you spend the time, you can figure it out, but it's begging for a simpler solution. You can use tools like mkcert[2] for anything that's local to your machine. However, if you're already using ACME in production, maybe you'd prefer to use ACME locally? I think that's what Anchor offers, a unified approach.
There's a couple references in the Anchor blog about solving the distribution problem by building better tooling[3]. I'm eager to learn more, that's a tough nut to crack. My theory for getlocalcert is that the distribution problem is too difficult (for me) to solve, so I layer the tool on top of Let's Encrypt certificates instead. The end result for both tools is a trusted TLS certificate issued via ACME automation.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674224
2. https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
3. https://blog.anchor.dev/the-acme-gap-introducing-anchor-part...
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Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
Looks like step-ca/step-cli [1] and mkcert [2] have been mentioned. Another related tool is XCA [3] - a gui tool to manage CAs and server/client TLS certificates. It takes off some of the tedium in using openssl cli directly. It also stores the certs and keys in an encrypted database. It doesn't solve the problem of getting the root CA certificate into the system store or of hosting the revocation list. I use XCA to create and store the root CA. Intermediate CAs signed with it are passed to other issuers like vault and step-issuer.
[1] https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/
[2] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
[3] https://hohnstaedt.de/xca/
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Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
We use mkcert for this, it works wonderfully.
https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
What are some alternatives?
signify - OpenBSD tool to sign and verify signatures on files. Portable version.
minica - minica is a small, simple CA intended for use in situations where the CA operator also operates each host where a certificate will be used.
age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
nginx-docker-ssl-proxy - A docker way to access localhost:8081 from https://local.dev
age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age
certificates - 🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.
gosumemory - Cross-Platform memory reader for osu!
kyber
rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust
mkp224o - vanity address generator for tor onion v3 (ed25519) hidden services
uvicorn - An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄