sqopv-verify(1)

💖 sqopv-verify(1) — bestie's guide to checking detached signatures 💖

okay so before we even get into it: this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about sqopv-verify. yes the name is giving "cryptic little cryptographer" and yes you're gonna love it. it verifies detached signatures, which is exactly as iconic as it sounds. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

sqopv-verify — Verifies Detached Signatures

like. that's the whole job. it checks that a detached signature is legit. no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sqopv verify [--debug] [--not-before] [--not-after] [-h|--help]
<SIGNATURES> [CERTS]

so it's sqopv (the command), then verify (the sub-thing), then a lil pile of optional flags, then the signatures you want verified, and then optionally some certs to do the verifying with. the way that the optional stuff is in brackets and the mandatory stuff is not? that's your vibe check right there. brackets = optional, bestie. no brackets = you literally have to bring it 🔥

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Verifies Detached Signatures

periodt. that's it. that's the description. the manual is not gonna waste your time with a whole essay when the name already told you everything, and honestly? we respect the efficiency 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's the whole flag family, no skips, no "and also some others", all of them:

• --debug — Emit verbose output for debugging. so when something's acting up and you're like "why is this not working 😭", this flag makes it yap. lots of output. all the details. chef's kiss for figuring out what's going on 🔍
• --not-before <NOT_BEFORE> — Consider signatures before this date invalid. so if a signature is dated earlier than the <NOT_BEFORE> you hand it, it's a no from this program. too old, don't care, invalid 🙅♀️
• --not-after <NOT_AFTER> — Consider signatures after this date invalid. same energy, other direction. anything dated later than <NOT_AFTER> gets marked invalid. too new, also no ✋
• -h, --help — Print help. your bestie when you forget literally everything. iconic, necessary, always there for you 🫶
• <SIGNATURES> — Signatures to verify. this one's required (no brackets, remember?) — it's the whole reason you showed up. these are the detached signatures getting the inspection 💅
• [CERTS] — Certs for verification. optional but lowkey the hero of the story, because these are the certificates used to actually verify the signatures. bring them if you got them, bestie 🌈

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🌟 a lil closing vibe 🌟

so that's the whole page! go forth, verify your detached signatures, set your date windows with --not-before and --not-after, and turn on --debug the second anything starts acting mysterious. you got this fr fr 💖

this whole thing lives in sqopv 0.38.0, dated February 2025, and it's genuinely one of the cutest little verification tools out here. mwah 💋✨