On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:54:09AM -0400, Santiago Torres Arias wrote:
Seeing how large this signature is, I have to admit that I am partial to
Konstantin's suggestion of using minisign. This seems like something
that could be added to git as an alternative to gpg without too much
trouble, I think.
I wonder how big the pgp payload would be with ed25519 as the underlying
algorithm. AFAICT, the payload of a minisign signature vs a signature
packet have almost the same fields...
It's smaller, but it's not a one-liner. Here's a comparison using
ED25519 keys of the same length:
minisign:
RWQ4kF9UdFgeSt3LqnS3WnrLlx2EnuIFW7euw5JnLUHY/79ipftmj7A2ug7FiR2WmnFNoSacWr7llBuyInVmRL/VRovj1LFtvA0=
pgp:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
iHUEARYIAB0WIQR2vl2yUnHhSB5njDW2xBzjVmSZbAUCXaniFAAKCRC2xBzjVmSZ
bHA5AP46sSPFJfL2tbXwswvj0v2DjLAQ9doxl9bfj9iPZu+3qwEAw5qAMbjw9teL
L7+NbJ0WVniDWTgt+5ruQ2V9vyfYxAc=
=B/St
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-K
