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Create GPG Key for GitHub Commit Signing
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| set -eu | |
| # | |
| # Commands for generating a new GPG key for GitHub commit signing. | |
| # | |
| # https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/ | |
| # | |
| gpg --full-gen-key | |
| # 1. 1 | |
| # 2. 4096 | |
| # 3. 1y | |
| # 4. Richard Fussenegger | |
| # 5. fleshgrinder@users.noreply.github.com | |
| # 6. GitHub | |
| # 7. **************************************** | |
| id=$(gpg --list-keys --keyid-format LONG | grep -Eoe'4096R/([A-Z0-9]+)' -m1 --color=never | cut -d/ -f2) | |
| gpg --armor --export $id >public.key | |
| gpg --armor --export-secret-key $id >private.key | |
| printf 'Add %s as signingkey to your global .gitconfig file\n' $id |
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--full-gen-keywas needed on my system to be asked about the key size