I got this article in a reply to a different conversation, and for the most part I agree with it. Gpg is old and we have better ways. I like signing my commits, I like feeling that these commits are actually and provably mine. But I’m not married to GPG like I used to be, I’d like a better way. The problem is that git used gpg for signing. I learned about this new thing called minisign and I wanna use it with git. So how do we switch? And if we can’t switch, then how do we fix GPG?

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    You say “how do we fix GPG” but what’s wrong with GPG with regards to signing and verifying got commits?

    As far as I know (which isn’t a lot) got uses GPG directly and you can’t have it use a different tool. It’s not like using a different pager like less or cat, it uses GPG and makes assumptions about it.

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    1 year ago

    IIRC, GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise support using SSH for signing. I think that whatever is used should leverage asymmetric/public-key cryptography.

    Passkeys maybe?