How to Make Verified GitHub Commits

Marco Massenzio
2 min readDec 25, 2021
Keys, keys… keys everywhere!

GitHub has a set of detailed instructions; however, if you know your way around a Linux shell and have a basic understanding of how keys work, this is a condensed TL;DR version.

Also, with minimal effort it could be automated in a shell script (even uploading the key to GitHub via API).

Here is the sequence of commands, along with the relevant output:

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