watsign
minisign
| watsign | minisign | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 | |
| 13 | 1,971 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.2 | 4.8 | |
| over 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| WebAssembly | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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watsign
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
What are some alternatives?
rust-minisign - A pure Rust implementation of the Minisign signature tool.
signify - OpenBSD tool to sign and verify signatures on files. Portable version.
Kryptor - A simple, modern, and secure encryption and signing tool that aims to be a better version of age and Minisign.
age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
assemblyscript - A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.
age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age
binaryen - Optimizer and compiler/toolchain library for WebAssembly
ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.
kyber
mkp224o - vanity address generator for tor onion v3 (ed25519) hidden services
sign - Digital file signing and signature verfication utility
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.