Minisign Changelog

What's new in Minisign 0.11

Jan 16, 2023
  • For non-interactive usage (CI/CD, etc), encryption of private keys can be disabled with the -W switch.
  • A new command, -C was added to change passwords, or remove them (when combined with -W).

New in Minisign 0.10 (Oct 9, 2021)

  • Minisign can be compiled with Zig instead of cmake+make+a C toolchain
  • Minimal VERIFY_ONLY versions can be built again
  • Prehashing is now enabled by default, regardless of the input size. Support for non-prehashed signatures will eventually be removed
  • Legacy signatures can be rejected with the addition of the -H flag
  • Precompiled binaries for Win64, Linux and WebAssembly are now available.

New in Minisign 0.9 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • New option: -R to recover the public key from a secret key.
  • Minisign can now be compiled to WebAssembly.
  • Error messages have been improved.
  • Key derivation is now possible on devices with limited memory.
  • Compilation on OpenWRT is now possible using cmake.
  • A Docker image is now available.
  • 64-bit Windows binaries have been added, and macOS binaries are notarized.

New in Minisign 0.8 (Apr 14, 2020)

  • Multiple files can now be signed at once.
  • Support for HaikuOS was added.
  • The command-line switch to use custom file names when generating key pairs didn't work properly; this has been fixed.