From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:43:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.
Message-ID: <20050425024340.GI29939@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050425023420.GA14696@lists.us.dell.com>

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:34:20PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:01:28PM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > It may be better to have them as simple detached signatures, which are
> > completely separate files (see gpg --detached).
> > Yeah, gpg currently implements detached signatures
> > by repeating what gets signed, which is unfortunate,
> > but the _idea_ is the right one.
> 
> I solve this with two simple scripts, "sign" calls "cutsig".
...
> gpg --armor --clearsign --detach-sign --default-key "${DEFAULT_KEY} -v -v -o - ${1} | \
> ${CUTSIG} > ${1}.sign

You could also just leave out the --clearsign option and it will DTRT.

Jan