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Add minisign
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Repo or homepage link: https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign
Description: "A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures."
Why I think it's awesome: It's an app that does only a single thing and does it well, while also providing alternative to the sprawling popular option of GPG for signing.
Is it compatible with GPG?
providing alternative [..] to GPG
In practice that sound like I will need both of them when people start using this. relevant xkcd
A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures
I don't know what so bad about:
gpg --sign test
gpg --verify test.gpg
No, it is not compatible with GPG. I felt that the tool could be compared to GPG in that regard as it was the only other standalone (as standalone as GPG can be, that is) thing that did signing and/or verifying.
In practice that sound like I will need both of them when people start using this. relevant xkcd
I do not really know what to comment on this or what is required from me here? It's nothing I can affect, and denying inclusion of a tool on grounds of it being something different but in similar niche to a popular one sounds rather strange. Assuming that's what this comment is about? I am confused about what it meant to convey ^^'
The "dead simple" description is one that is used in at least one distributive packaging system, and is what the tool self-describes as.
As for GPG, it is rather massive system that can be a lot of things that are barely related to one another, and it has an enormous identity management layer. Whereas this tool does only one thing, and focuses only on it. The contribution guide even says that ... suggested software should ... do one thing and do it well, ...