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IndieAuth using gpg 2021-05-14T11:38:53+02:00 false post

I rediscovered IndieAuth and wanted to try it finally.

As authentication method I decided to use my gpg key, because it's public anyway and something interesting and new to me (I actually never signed anything on the console before).

It took a little try and error before I found the following solution for signing the key:

gpg --clearsign --default-key name@example.tld gpgmessage.txt

It's not perfect; it requires to put the message that needs to be signed in a file and puts the signed message in a new file with an .asc ending. It would be much nicer if it would allow to do both directly on the console.