Merge branch 'fs/ssh-signing-key-lifetime'

Extend the signing of objects with SSH keys and learn to pay
attention to the key validity time range when verifying.

* fs/ssh-signing-key-lifetime:
  ssh signing: verify ssh-keygen in test prereq
  ssh signing: make fmt-merge-msg consider key lifetime
  ssh signing: make verify-tag consider key lifetime
  ssh signing: make git log verify key lifetime
  ssh signing: make verify-commit consider key lifetime
  ssh signing: add key lifetime test prereqs
  ssh signing: use sigc struct to pass payload
  t/fmt-merge-msg: make gpgssh tests more specific
  t/fmt-merge-msg: do not redirect stderr
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Junio C Hamano
2021-12-21 15:03:15 -08:00
13 changed files with 351 additions and 48 deletions

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@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ A repository that only allows signed commits can store the file
in the repository itself using a path relative to the top-level of the working tree.
This way only committers with an already valid key can add or change keys in the keyring.
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Since OpensSSH 8.8 this file allows specifying a key lifetime using valid-after &
valid-before options. Git will mark signatures as valid if the signing key was
valid at the time of the signatures creation. This allows users to change a
signing key without invalidating all previously made signatures.
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Using a SSH CA key with the cert-authority option
(see ssh-keygen(1) "CERTIFICATES") is also valid.