py3rsa-verify(1)

📦 version 4.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 py3rsa-verify — the "did you actually sign this tho" tool 💖

okay bestie, so this is py3rsa-verify, a page from the General Commands Manual (section 1, the classics 💅). She does one thing and she does it flawlessly: she checks whether a signature is real. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

py3rsa-verify — verify a signature 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

py3rsa-verify [OPTION]... PUBLIC_KEY SIGNATURE_FILE

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so the whole vibe is: you hand her a signature, she checks it. that's it. that's the girl. ✨

  • signature checks out? she exits with status 0 and you get to feel iconic 😌
  • something's wrong? she prints an error message and exits with status 1. not me getting a 1… 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — shows the help message and dips. your classic "tell me what you do" moment 🎀
  • -i INPUT, --input=INPUT — the name of the signed file you want verified. lowkey optional: if you don't specify it, she reads from stdin instead 🍓
  • --keyform=KEYFORM — the key format of the public key. default is PEM 💜

🚦 EXIT STATUS 🚦

0 if the signature can be verified, 1 otherwise. simple as. no in-between, no situationship 💀

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

py3rsa-verify was written by Sybren A. Stuvel <sybren AT stuvel.eu>. give him his flowers fr fr 🌷

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 and yes, that little py3rsa-verify(1) tag at the bottom is just the manual page name doing its thing — section 1 of the General Commands Manual, no version or date attached, just vibes 💖✨🎀

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