Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

From: Thomas Glanzmann
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 13:03:32 EST


Hello,

there is no need to tell the verifier against what key to verify because
the signature already contains this information.

> If somebody writes a script to generate the above kind of thing (and
> tells me how to validate it), I'll do the rest, and start tagging
> things properly. Oh, and make sure the above sounds sane (ie if
> somebody has a better idea for how to more easily identify how to find
> the public key to check against, please speak up).

# This creates the signature.
gpg --clearsign < sign_this > signature

# And this verifies it.
gpg --verify < signature && echo valid

Thomas
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