[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] doc/git-howto.texi: Document commit signing

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:19:02AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 04:38:56PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > On 8/9/2022 4:34 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > From: Michael Niedermayer <michael-git at niedermayer.cc>
[...]
> 
> > 
> > > +github consider mismatches a reason to declare such commits unverified. After generating a key you
> > > +can add it to the MAINTAINER file and upload it to a keyserver.
> > 
> > Maybe link some external documentation about gpg keys, explaining the
> > difference between public and private keys, 
> 
> what do you recommend ?

ping ?
we could link to the gpg docs but that seems kind of silly


> 
> 
> > how to encrypt the private one
> > with a passphrase, etc.
> 
> Have you tried to generate a gpg key without a passphrase ?
> I just tried, and failed, gpg keeps asking for a passphrase until you enter
> one or kill it. It kept haunting me and asking for a passphrase even after
> trying ctrl-c 
> 
> 
> > Sites like gitlab tell you to not attempt to upload private keys, 
> 
> ok
> 
> 
> > so i
> > imagine quite a lot of people have mistakenly done so in the past.
> 
> imagine?
> 
> but what do you suggest? we can document how someone can create a key
> upload it and so on. You can provide me with a url that describes a
> working documentation for that, i surely do not have one. alot of
> documentations are somewhat bad. Many keyservers have died recently
> some existing keys like DSA seem to have some affinity to SHA1, and
> SHA1 is rejected today while at the same time still default on many
> setups, the one documentation i saw today to fix that DSA/SHA1 issue
> requires you to have a backup as it breaks your keys and is wrong.




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