Release that is signed ?

[jesper-arista]

Would it be possible to generate a release that is cryptographically signed with a key ?

It would allow us to import the signed release, and use the signature to verify the code is not modified.

For example tcpdump is available as a .tar.gz file at https://www.tcpdump.org/index.html#latest-releases with an associated signature https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.0.tar.gz.sig signed with a private key for which the public key is available at https://www.tcpdump.org/release/signing-key.asc

Any chance you could make this available ?

thanks Jesper

[daurnimator]

It would allow us to import the signed release, and use the signature to verify the code is not modified.

You can make your own checksum.

Signatures are only useful for proving provenance i.e. who made a release; rather than making sure the contents have not been changed