minisign
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Jan 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“add https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign to pre-installed packages”
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Caveats and dissent
“discovered multiple vulnerabilities in cryptographic utilities, namely in GnuPG, Sequoia PGP, age, and minisign.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- The PGP Problem (2019) 2 mentions
- A Vulnerability in Libsodium 1 mention
- GPG and Me (2015) 1 mention
- Switching from GPG to Age 1 mention
Also written as Minisign. Data: minisign.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“Boring, simple, fit-for-purpose.”
“add https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign to pre-installed packages”
“discovered multiple vulnerabilities in cryptographic utilities, namely in GnuPG, Sequoia PGP, age, and minisign.”
“For signing minisign[1]”
“I first thought of Minisign, too.”