Re: [RFC PATCH] gpg: add support for gpgsm

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:46:05AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me> writes:
> 
> > Detect the gpgsm block header and run this command instead of gpg.
> > On the signing side, ask gpgsm if it knows the signing key we're trying
> > to use and fall back to gpg if it does not.
> >
> > This lets the user more easily combine signing and verifying X509 and
> > PGP signatures without having to choose a default for a particular
> > repository that may need to be occasionally overridden.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Out there in the so-called "real world", companies like using X509 to
> > sign things. Currently you can set 'gpg.program' to gpgsm to get
> > gpg-compatible verification,...
> 
> I notice that you had to add GPGSM_MESSAGE string constant; does the
> current code without any change really work correctly if you set
> 'gpg.program' to gpgsm and do nothing else?

It has been a few months since I fooled around with gpgsm, but IIRC, it
works for tags but not commits. Because verify-tag just blindly dumps
the tag to gpg.program, and gpgsm finds the correct signature. Whereas
the --show-signature option of git-log does not bother to call gpg if we
didn't see a signature.

Which makes me wonder whether verify-tag would send a gpgsm-signed tag
to the right place with Carlos's patch (I didn't check).

-Peff