Differences to minisign

[martinberg212]

Could someone please give a short summary about what differs between signify and minisign? https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign

Based on the description they both do exactly the same which makes it kinda hard to decide which to use.

Thank you for any explanation.

[aperezdc]

Both programs are largely equivalent, have a similar feature set, and signatures generated by one can be verified with the other (and vice versa). The main differences are:

• Minisign stores private keys in a different format, see the Compatibility with OpenBSD signify section in the Minisig website for details.
• Minisign has a -H command line switch which generates signatures that Signify cannot read.
• The Signify code comes directly from the OpenBSD repository, with minor changes to make it portable to other systems, while Minisig seems to have been implemented from scratch.

[martinberg212]

Thank you for the reply :)