smimesign VS gitsign

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smimesign

An S/MIME signing utility for use with Git (by github)
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gitsign

Keyless Git signing using Sigstore (by sigstore)
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0.0 9.1
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smimesign

Posts with mentions or reviews of smimesign. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • Signing Git Commits with Your SSH Key
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    I believe GitHub's smimesign can use RFC3161 timestamps:

    How to specify a timestamp server

    https://github.com/github/smimesign/issues/47

  • Gitsign
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2022
    smimesign supports timestamping with a normal timestamp server, with a bit of extra effort. It would be cool if your tool could (at least optionally) do the same.

    https://github.com/github/smimesign/issues/47#issuecomment-4...

gitsign

Posts with mentions or reviews of gitsign. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.
  • Gittuf – a security layer for Git using some concepts introduced by TUF
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023
    > does it also filter/escape ANSI Sequences in messages and author names?

    Not at present! Do you have a link or so I could use to familiarize myself? I'm curious if it'd fall within gittuf's scope.

    > does it block garbage collection?

    Nope, it doesn't. That said, the repository will have more objects, gittuf tracks additional objects through custom refs in `refs/gittuf/`.

    > how do you ensure that the developers are really the developers and there's no spoofing?

    At present, gittuf policies use signing keys. It doesn't rely on the commit metadata for author and committer but rather the commit's signature. We support GPG and Sigstore's gitsign [0] right now, and we want to support other signing mechanisms like SSH keys as well.

    [0] https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign

  • Signing Git Commits with Your SSH Key
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    You may want to check out https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign! You can generate ephemeral x509 code signing certs for free using Sigstore.

    (disclosure: I'm a maintainer for gitsign)

  • A toolbox for a secure software supply chain
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
    Def check out the gitsign project mentioned in the post: https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign
  • Enable Gitsign Today and Start Signing your Commits
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Aug 2022
    Gitsign offers a keyless commit signing implementation based on OIDC, which is an identity layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 framework. Gitsign supports verifying your identity either through GitHub, Microsoft, or a Google account.
  • SSH commit verification now supported
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2022
    Shameless plug for the gitsign project in sigstore: https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign

    This isn't supported by GitHub yet but we're hopefully working towards that too.

  • sigstore/gitsign: Keyless Git signing using Sigstore
    1 project | /r/devopsish | 24 Jun 2022
  • Keyless Git signing with Sigstore!
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Jun 2022
  • Gitsign
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2022
    We used to actually run an RFC3161 timestamp server in addition to the transparency log but recently turned it down because no one was using it. I'd like to bring it back for stuff like this.

    https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign/issues/22

    1 project | /r/devopspro | 16 May 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing smimesign and gitsign you can also consider the following projects:

git-ts - Git TimeStamp Utility

platform-samples - A public place for all platform sample projects.

github - Just a place to track issues and feature requests that I have for github

community - Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

SignTools - ✒ A free, self-hosted platform to sideload iOS apps without a computer

cargo-vet - supply-chain security for Rust

opentimestamps-client - OpenTimestamps client

age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

vouch - A multi-ecosystem package code review system.

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