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Bug#773850: ITP: signify-openbsd -- Lightweight cryptographic signing and verifying tool



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Riley <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4Xix@bitmessage.ch>

* Package name    : signify-openbsd
  Version         : 7
  Upstream Author : Adrian Perez <aperez@igalia.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/aperezdc/signify
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Lightweight cryptographic signing and verifying tool

Similar to GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), signify is the tool which
OpenBSD uses to cryptographically sign its releases, so that
you can be sure that you are actually getting a release made by
OpenBSD, as opposed to a malicious forgery designed to look
the same.

Signify's usage is not limited to OpenBSD's releases, however -
it can be used to sign any software.

So that it will work on Linux, the version of signify provided
in this package is not exactly the same as the version provided
in OpenBSD's CVS tree; however the upstream changes are
frequently merged.


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