Re: send PGP signed commits/patches with git-send-email(1)

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2022, 11:34 UTC
Message-ID: <03af9a8e-cf2c-8a32-330d-debad956683d@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YrGoqEi3shil7pkM@kroah.com>

Hi!

On 6/21/22 13:16, Greg KH wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:12:12AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 02:00:16PM +0200, Fabian Stelzer wrote:
>>> Konstantin Ryabitsev has done some work in this area especially for kernel
>>> development by using email headers:
>>> https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/end-to-end-patch-attestation-with-patatt-and-b4
>>> https://github.com/mricon/patatt
>>
>> Greg refers specifically to patatt signatures. They aren't really specific to
>> kernel development at all -- they can be used for any patches sent via mail.
>>
>> b4 (the tool used by many maintainers to retrieve patches from lists) will
>> check patatt-style signatures (in addition to DKIM signatures) to help verify
>> that the patches come from trusted sources and aren't someone pretending to be
>> someone else.
> 
> Yes, I was referring to patatt here, as linked by Konstantin's blog post
> above.  It's part of the b4 tool (well, a git subproject in it), real
> link is at:
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/patatt/patatt.git

Thank you all for the info. It works like charm (I still need to learn b4(1), but patatt(1) is enough for me right now). :)

Cheers,

Alex

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