From: Gwyneth Morgan <gwymor@tilde.club>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Gwyneth Morgan <gwymor@tilde.club>
Subject: [PATCH] signature-format.txt: Note SSH and X.509 signature delimiters
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:32:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220120053223.221667-1-gwymor@tilde.club> (raw)
This document only explained PGP signatures, but Git now supports X.509
and SSH signatures.
Signed-off-by: Gwyneth Morgan <gwymor@tilde.club>
---
Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt
index 166721be6f..c148d4c750 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,22 @@ is about to create an object or transaction determines a payload from that,
calls gpg to obtain a detached signature for the payload (`gpg -bsa`) and
embeds the signature into the object or transaction.
-Signatures always begin with `-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----`
-and end with `-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----`, unless gpg is told to
-produce RFC1991 signatures which use `MESSAGE` instead of `SIGNATURE`.
+Signatures always begin and end with a delimiter, which differs
+depending on signature type.
+
+PGP::
+ Signatures begin with `-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----` and end
+ with `-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----`, unless gpg is told to
+ produce RFC1991 signatures which use `MESSAGE` instead of
+ `SIGNATURE`.
+
+SSH::
+ Signatures begin with `-----BEGIN SSH SIGNATURE-----` and end
+ with `-----END SSH SIGNATURE-----`.
+
+X.509::
+ Signatures begin with `-----BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----` and end
+ with `-----END SIGNED MESSAGE-----`.
Signatures sometimes appear as a part of the normal payload
(e.g. a signed tag has the signature block appended after the payload
next reply other threads:[~2022-01-20 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-20 5:32 Gwyneth Morgan [this message]
2022-01-20 19:30 ` [PATCH] signature-format.txt: Note SSH and X.509 signature delimiters Junio C Hamano
2022-01-20 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-10 6:16 ` Gwyneth Morgan
2023-02-10 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-10 6:16 ` [PATCH v2] signature-format.txt: note " Gwyneth Morgan
2023-02-10 10:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-02-27 20:26 ` Gwyneth Morgan
2023-02-10 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-27 20:27 ` [PATCH v3] " Gwyneth Morgan
2023-02-27 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
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