PGPAINLESS-CLI-VERIFY(1)

💖 PGPAINLESS-CLI-VERIFY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to pgpainless-cli-verify(1), straight out of the PGPainless-CLI Manual ✨ this is the little command that checks whether a detached signature is, in fact, giving what it's supposed to give. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

pgpainless-cli-verify — verify a detached signature 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pgpainless-cli verify [--stacktrace] [--not-after=DATE]
[--not-before=DATE] SIGNATURE CERT...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: you've got a detached signature, and you want to know if the data you're feeding in actually matches it. You verify a detached signature over some data that comes in from STDIN. That's the whole job. It's giving "trust but verify" energy 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --not-after=DATE — the latest creation date you're willing to accept, fr fr. It's an ISO-8601 formatted UTC date, like '2020-11-23T16:35Z (yes the stray quote is part of the og, keep it 💀). Any signature with a creation date that falls outside the range gets rejected. Defaults to the current system time, aka "now". And plot twist: it also accepts the special value - for end of time. iconic.
• --not-before=DATE — the earliest creation date you'll accept, bestie. Same deal: an ISO-8601 formatted UTC date, e.g. '2020-11-23T16:35Z. Signatures with a creation date outside the range? Rejected. This one defaults to the beginning of time, which is the special value -. time travel permission slip granted 🧚
• --stacktrace — print stacktrace. that's it. that's the option. when things go sideways you get the whole messy story 🙈

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⭐ ARGUMENTS ⭐

• SIGNATURE — the detached signature. the star of the show, the main character 👑
• CERT... — public key certificates for signature verification. you can pass more than one, hence the .... bring your whole squad 🫶

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heads up babe: those two date options both reject signatures whose creation date lands outside the range — so pick your window carefully or you'll be ghosting legit signatures 😭

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so yeah, that's the whole page, and we're wrapping up like a good little manual: this came to you from the PGPainless-CLI Manual, page pgpainless-cli-verify(1). go verify something and slay, bestie 💖✨🎀