Minisign

Minisign is a dead simple tool to sign files and verify signatures.

For more information, please refer to the Minisign documentation

Tarballs and pre-compiled binaries can be verified with the following public key:

RWQf6LRCGA9i53mlYecO4IzT51TGPpvWucNSCh1CBM0QTaLn73Y7GFO3

Compilation / installation

Dependencies:

• libsodium
• cmake
• pkg-config

Compilation:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
# make install

Alternative configuration for static binaries:

$ cmake .. -D STATIC_LIBSODIUM=1

or:

$ cmake .. -D BUILD_STATIC_EXECUTABLES=1

Minisign is also available in Homebrew:

$ brew install minisign

Minisign is also available in Scoop on Windows:

$ scoop install minisign

Minisign is also available in chocolatey on Windows:

$ choco install minisign

Additional tools, libraries and implementations

• minisign-misc is a very nice set of workflows and scripts for macOS to verify and sign files with minisign.
• go-minisign is a small module in Go to verify Minisign signatures.
• rust-minisign is a Minisign library written in pure Rust, that can be embedded in other applications.
• rsign2 is a reimplementation of the command-line tool in Rust.
• minisign-verify is a small Rust crate to verify Minisign signatures.
• minisign-net is a .NET library to handle and create Minisign signatures.
• minisign a Javascript implementation.
• WebAssembly implementations of rsign2 and minisign-cli are available on WAPM.

Signature determinism

This implementation uses deterministic signatures, unless libsodium was compiled with the ED25519_NONDETERMINISTIC macro defined. This adds random noise to the computation of EdDSA nonces.

Other implementations can choose to use non-deterministic signatures by default. They will remain fully interoperable with implementations using deterministic signatures.