---
title: "Why you should sign your commits with gpg."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-sign-your-commits-with-gpg--oirt0zg6d
source_url: https://www.isitayush.dev/blog/gpg-and-singing-commits
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
author: "Ayush"
published: 2023-03-12T09:29:46.011Z
updated: 2024-04-15T14:00:13.800Z
tags: ["security", "github", "encryption"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 21
comments: 13
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://www.isitayush.dev/blog/gpg-and-singing-commits>

## 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.

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption)

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