--- title: Why you should sign your commits with gpg. | daily.dev description: This post discusses the importance of signing commits with GPG and how it helps to verify the authenticity of commits on platforms like Github. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why you should sign your commits with gpg. | daily.dev og:description: This post discusses the importance of signing commits with GPG and how it helps to verify the authenticity of commits on platforms like Github. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OiRT0Zg6D.png og:image:alt: Why you should sign your commits with gpg. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why you should sign your commits with gpg. **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@is_it_ayush](https://daily.dev/is_it_ayush) · 4 min read · 21 upvotes · 13 comments ## Summary This post discusses the importance of signing commits with GPG and how it helps to verify the authenticity of commits on platforms like Github. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@the\_r4v3n** · 2 upvotes > Thanks for this great article **@kkurko** · 2 upvotes > Great article - would like to see the difference between GPG and SSH signing **@kkurko** · 2 upvotes > @is_it_ayush I just want to appreciate your effort on working on your personal website – I really like this clean design and the home page idea is great! 🔥 > > Some feedback that, I think, can make your website even better: your back button works similar to the browser’s back button and that’s fine if you have some other ways to return to the home page. But right now, the back button is the only navigation element on some pages, so users cannot really open the home page from, for example, the blog page if they open it directly. It means they need to edit the URL manually if they want to see... **@peternl** · 1 upvotes > Nice one! **@richardevcom** · 1 upvotes > Another great article, Ayush. --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why you should sign your commits with gpg.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d"},"datePublished":"2023-03-12T09:29:46.011Z","dateModified":"2024-04-15T14:00:13.800Z","description":"This post discusses the importance of signing commits with GPG and how it helps to verify the authenticity of commits on platforms like Github.","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/152fc98ade8e88c49845aaa27209cc9f?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/152fc98ade8e88c49845aaa27209cc9f?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ayush","url":"https://daily.dev/is_it_ayush","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AGNmyxasW9iN0Qs5IILP1vggVlLJoYLQSpTaaOU5Mif6ovA=s96-c","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":540}},"commentCount":13,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":21},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":13}],"keywords":"security,github,encryption","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why you should sign your commits with gpg."}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks for this great article","datePublished":"2023-03-12T10:22:25.515Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/OiRT0Zg6D#c-nPAsXheZE","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"The- R4V3N","url":"https://daily.dev/the_r4v3n","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18666373?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great article - would like to see the difference between GPG and SSH signing","datePublished":"2023-03-13T04:30:43.281Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/OiRT0Zg6D#c-GgzHQBzQ3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kirill Kurko","url":"https://daily.dev/kkurko","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58859242?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"@is_it_ayush I just want to appreciate your effort on working on your personal website – I really like this clean design and the home page idea is great! 🔥\nSome feedback that, I think, can make your website even better: your back button works similar to the browser’s back button and that’s fine if you have some other ways to return to the home page. 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It should solve the problem (and that’s a common pattern, so users will expect it to be clickable).\nAnyway, great job – looking forward to seeing your website evolving, and definitely will read more articles from you! 🚀","datePublished":"2023-03-13T19:34:41.889Z","dateModified":"2023-03-13T19:36:02.892Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/OiRT0Zg6D#c-xLgZttZIN","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kirill Kurko","url":"https://daily.dev/kkurko","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58859242?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice one!","datePublished":"2023-03-13T21:50:00.559Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/OiRT0Zg6D#c-IkIibNtPy","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Peter Goudkamp","url":"https://daily.dev/peternl","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Gj3YfzF6WyaPh7pYwo4fu0TECmFVgpGvK7n0W55gw=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Another great article, Ayush.","datePublished":"2023-03-12T09:30:41.111Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/OiRT0Zg6D#c-VofWK32c6","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"richardevcom","url":"https://daily.dev/richardevcom","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17192512?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```