Why Sign Commits?
Monday, August 1, 2022 ยท 3 minute read
Why Sign Commits? Why should you sign your commits?
Preface I recently read this article [0] by Alessandro Segala about why I
Identify Theft Identify theft is not a joke [1].
The FTC in their 2021 edition of the CSN Annual Data Book [2] reported that
This article focusses around git [3] and online version control systems (VCS
It is not only possible, but increadibly easy to sign a commit under a diffe
The Dangers of Developer Identity Theft The biggest threat to a developer wh
A malicious attacker who signs off on infected, poorly written, or malformed
A malicious attacker could publish commits that actively ruin existing featu
Benefits of Signing To combat this, git allows for individuals to sign their
This allows for a number of benefits:
Commits in the git history that are signed have metadata attached to them s
Setting up signed commits was trivial, and there were plenty of guides [0] [
I strongly encourage all developers to sign their commits in order to improv
Citations
HTML 0. https://withblue.ink/2020/05/17/how-and-why-to-sign-git-commits.html
HTML 1. https://tinyurl.com/yjbxpajr
HTML 2. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/CSN%20Annual%20Data%20Book%202021%20Final%20PDF.pdf
HTML 3. https://git-scm.com
HTML 4. https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-gpg
HTML 5. https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/signing-commits
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