smimesign mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget installieren

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Befehle und Aliase

• smimesign

Projektgeschichte

The official README describes smimesign as an S/MIME signing utility compatible with Git, using X.509 certificates from public or internal certificate authorities. It also states that the tool uses keys and certificates already stored in macOS Keychain or Windows Certificate Store.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents Homebrew installation on macOS and Scoop installation on Windows, while the supplied package metadata also lists MacPorts, Nix, and winget. This made it installable through the same package managers developers already use for Git tooling.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users configure Git to invoke smimesign for signing. For Git 2.19 and newer, the README shows setting `gpg.x509.program` to `smimesign` and `gpg.format` to `x509`, either locally per repository or globally for all repositories.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care because smimesign is security-sensitive, platform-specific, and tied to native certificate stores and smart cards. It is also a clear example of package managers distributing small developer-security helpers that integrate with a larger tool, Git.

Zeitleiste

• 2018: First GitHub release returned by the releases API was 0.0.1.
• 2018: README documents the Git 2.19 configuration split for X.509 signing.
• 2021: Repository release list shows v0.2.0-rc1 as the latest listed release.

Related projects

• The README discusses Git, GnuPG, PKI, S/MIME, macOS Keychain, Windows Certificate Store, smart cards, OpenSC, and YubiKey PIV tooling.

Quellen

• GitHub releases API for github/smimesign: first listed release 0.0.1 on 2018-09-11.
• https://github.com/github/smimesign README: purpose, platform support, certificate stores, Git configuration, package-manager installation, smart-card notes.
• input source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and winget package names.