Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] X509 (gpgsm) commit signing support

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:12:24PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:52:22AM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:

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This series can be seen as a follow up of a series that appeared under
the name "gpg-interface: Multiple signing tools" in april 2018 [1]. After
that series was not merged i decided to get my patches ready. The
original series aimed at being generic for any sort of signing tool, while
this series just introduced the X509 variant of gpg. (gpgsm)
I collected authors and reviewers of that first series and already put them
on cc.

This series is a fine replacement for that earlier work. It's flexible
enough to allow what we really wanted out of that series (gpgsm support,
or another drop-in tool that uses the same interface). It doesn't lay
any groundwork for further tools (like signify), but I think the
consensus on the list was to punt on that until somebody had more
concrete plans for adding such a tool.

I actually think this moves in a nice direction for adding support for
minisign/signify and other schemes.  There's a way to look up what
algorithm is in use in a particular context based on the first line and
a general interface for deciding what format to write.  Granted, it
currently still is very specific to gpg-style tools, but I think this is
an improvement in that regard.

As an OpenPGP user, I have no interest in adding support for other
tools, but I think this should make it easier if someone else wants to
do that.
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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