minisign
A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures. (by jedisct1)
msrx
Library and command line utils to use MSR605 magnetic card reader/writer (by oxplot)
| minisign | msrx | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 4 | |
| 1,967 | 26 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.8 | 1.9 | |
| about 1 month ago | 10 months ago | |
| C | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
minisign
Posts with mentions or reviews of minisign.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.
- 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
msrx
Posts with mentions or reviews of msrx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-31.
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[Update] Starting a new (non-technology) company using only Linux
There was a show-stopper bug in msrx which made it unusable on Kubuntu 21.10 and later. The guy fixed the bug the same day it was reported! On a Sunday no less.
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Still true? How true?
Working untouched for 7 years, fixed in less than two hours after the bug was reported. This is the kind of stability all software should strive towards.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing minisign and msrx you can also consider the following projects:
signify - OpenBSD tool to sign and verify signatures on files. Portable version.
libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
extreme-tux-racer-kiosk-edition
age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age
cleardental-newpatientportal-web-client
ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.
kyber
policy-templates - Policy Templates for Firefox
mkp224o - vanity address generator for tor onion v3 (ed25519) hidden services
dolt - Dolt – Git for Data