Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:03:43 -0400 | From | Konstantin Ryabitsev <> | Subject | Re: email as a bona fide git transport |
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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
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