this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025

223 points (95.9% liked)

Programmer Humor

22540 readers

1623 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

223

me when i find out i can use ssh to sign my git commits (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 week ago by quantenzitrone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, sorry, I meant signing, not encrypting. I know about asymmetrical encryption. That's why I was confused by the original statement. For signing you use your private key so that others can verify your identity by using your public key for checking the signature. For encrypting data you use the public key of the receiver.

~~The original comment used the public key for signing, which is not what you want to do.~~ I now read the explanation.