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Release that is signed ? #32

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jesper-arista opened this issue Jun 3, 2021 · 1 comment

jesper-arista commented Jun 3, 2021

Would it be possible to generate a release that is cryptographically signed with a key ?

It would allow us to import the signed release, and use the signature to verify the code is not modified.

For example tcpdump is available as a .tar.gz file at https://www.tcpdump.org/index.html#latest-releases with an associated signature https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.0.tar.gz.sig signed with a private key for which the public key is available at https://www.tcpdump.org/release/signing-key.asc

Any chance you could make this available ?

thanks
Jesper

daurnimator commented Jun 4, 2021

It would allow us to import the signed release, and use the signature to verify the code is not modified.

You can make your own checksum.

Signatures are only useful for proving provenance i.e. who made a release; rather than making sure the contents have not been changed

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