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A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2019-07-21 · latest 2026-11-03

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  1. …with gpg or minisign [1], so you can always verify weights before they are loaded into your engine. https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign
  2. …work on big distros, or know someone who works on big distros, please (start asking them to) add https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign to pre-installed packages to facilitate transition. It's almost a chicken egg problem but the sad thing…
    comment by maqp · 2026-01-03 · in The PGP problem (2019)
  3. …this built-in with forward-compatibility is a liability. [0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age [1] https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign [2] https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1 [3] https://github.com/restic/restic
    comment by kaoD · 2025-11-14 · in GPG and Me (2015)
  4. …fork by Yubico, but it hasn't been updated in a year [3]. Not sure about other hardware keys. [1]: https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign/issues/100 [2]: https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign/issues/95 [3]:…
    comment by palata · 2024-12-26 · in Operational PGP (2015)
  5. I always use minisign [1] for this. It is small and self-contained. [1] https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign
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    story by tosh · 2021-12-23 · 10 comments
  7. It's minisign. I see a libsodium dependency in the sources, anything else? Don't the binaries at https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign/releases work for you?
  8. minisign is pretty cool. I've added its signature to my software releases along with md5/sha256. https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign
    comment by aptmiguk · 2019-07-21 · in Dead Simple VPN