affsign(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie 💖 this is the affsign(1) page, and it's all about signing an AFF file 🦋

affsign - sign an existing AFF file 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

These are the ways you can call it, no cap 👑

affcopy [options] file1 file
affcopy [options] file1 file2 file3 ... dir
affcopy [options] file1 file2 file3 ... dir1 dir2...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does it actually do? It signs an existing AFF file, and it's literally two things 😭

• Signs each segment if there are no segment signatures.
• Writes a signed chain-of-custody Bill of Materials segment.

Lowkey iconic, right? 🫶 It's part of the AFFLIBv3 library, which is what provides AFF.

AFF is an open and extensible file format for storing disk images and their associated metadata 🧚 It's super useful in a bunch of situations, like computer forensics investigations 🔍

✨ OPTIONS ✨

💜 General options

• -n — Asks you for a chain-of-custody note 📝
• -v — Just prints the version number and exits. Quick and clean 🌈

🔐 Signature Options

• -k filename.key — Specifies the private key for signing 🔑
• -c filename.cer — Specifies an X.509 certificate that matches the private key. By default, the file is assumed to be the same one you gave with the -k option, so you don't have to repeat yourself 🙈
• -Z — ZAP (remove) all signature segments. Be careful with this one, bestie 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Check out the rest of the squad 💖

affcat(1), affcompare(1), affconvert(1), affcopy(1), affcrypto(1), affdiskprint(1), affinfo(1), affix(1), affrecover(1), affsegment(1), affstats(1), affuse(1), affverify(1), affxml(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The AFFLIB was written by Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org> and Basis Technology, Inc. ✨

This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project, but anyone else is welcome to use it too 🫶

That's the whole page, bestie! 🌈 Version 3.7.4 from Oct 2014, all wrapped up as AFFSIGN 💅✨