Signify Error
kd4e Are you saying that instead of using the apt get signify version, linked from the GrapheneOS installation instructions - I should install the BSD version from the MX Linux repository?
I just looked and am not seeing information about which signify
to use on the installation pages I skimmed. Which instructions are you referring to?
de0u
It was generated when I ran this ...
$ curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/allowed_signers.sig
signify -V -m allowed_signers -x allowed_signers.sig -p factory.pub
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 144 100 144 0 0 688 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 692
Command 'signify' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install signify
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kd4e
Command 'signify' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install signify
That message is not "linked from" the GrapheneOS installation instructions. That message is from your shell's "command not found" handler, which has no idea which version of a program is the right one.
I hopped into my time machine and found old GrapheneOS information on which signify
to use: https://web.archive.org/web/20210402204222/https://grapheneos.org/install/cli#obtaining-signify
de0u Cool, thanks - I thought that was generated by grapheneos - always something new to learn!
OK, I uninstalled the version of signify I had installed and installed the bsd version instead (not terribly intuitive but I'm fond of OpenBSD, so there's that). :-)
Unfortunately, I now get this new error ...
$ curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/allowed_signers.sig
signify -V -m allowed_signers -x allowed_signers.sig -p factory.pub
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 144 100 144 0 0 436 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 437
bash: /usr/bin/signify: No such file or directory
kd4e
bash: /usr/bin/signify: No such file or directory
It sounds as if the package installed the program using a different name or in a different directory, in which case you may need to edit the command appropriately.
Or... I suspect the web installer does this automatically. Has that been tried?
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kd4e I believe you should be using OpenSSH to verify the image, not signify. They switched from signify to OpenSSH
Install OpenSSH
sudo apt install openssh-client
Obtain the Key
curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/allowed_signers
Obtain the Image and Sig File
curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip
curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip.sig
Verify the Image
ssh-keygen -Y verify -f allowed_signers -I contact@grapheneos.org -n "factory images" -s DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip.sig < DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip
This is the new (OpenSSH) key,
contact@grapheneos.org ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIIUg/m5CoP83b0rfSCzYSVA4cw4ir49io5GPoxbgxdJE
You can either verify it by cross referencing with their posts on their socials (links in the install guide) or use their old (signify) key to verify their new (OpenSSH) key (which is what you're trying to do). You would need their old signify key to do that. They signed their new (OpenSSH) key with their old (signify) so you can verify the new OpenSSH key. The new images are signed via OpenSSH not signify.
The current public key is signed with the previous signify key. If you already have the previous signify public key (factory.pub) and want to verify the new key with it:
[deleted] Awesome, thanks!
I got this far, then ...
$ ssh-keygen -Y verify -f allowed_signers -I contact@grapheneos.org -n "factory images" -s DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip.sig < DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip
Couldn't parse signature: missing header
sig_verify: sshsig_armor: invalid format
Could not verify signature.
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kd4e All good it seems ...
"Good "factory images" signature for contact@grapheneos.org with ED25519 key SHA256"
Oh, wait, the actual key isn't at all the same as that one. But it says "Good".
I'm confused ...
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kd4e I noticed a BSD variant in the MX Linux repository.
Debian 12 (bookworm) from my install log according to the GrapheneOS CLI guide 11.12.2023:
(looks like the guide has changed a bit and now uses open-ssh instead of signify)
~$ sudo apt install signify-openbsd
~$ alias signify=signify-openbsd
~$ curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/factory.pub
~$ curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/shiba-factory-2023120800.zip
~$ curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/shiba-factory-2023120800.zip.sig
~$ signify -Cqp factory.pub -x shiba-factory-2023120800.zip.sig && echo verified
~$ bsdtar xvf shiba-factory-2023120800.zip
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kd4e No, you no longer need signify to verify the factory images. This is now done with OpenSSH as u/Space already wrote. (openssh-client should be installed on every Unix & Linux by default)
The current public key is signed with the previous signify key. If you already have the previous signify public key (factory.pub) and want to verify the new key with it:
curl -O https://releases.grapheneos.org/allowed_signers.sig
signify -V -m allowed_signers -x allowed_signers.sig -p factory.pubWhen the current signing key is replaced, the new key will be signed with it.
If you don't have the previous signify public key, you can skip this section. Signify is only used to compare the old key with the new one.
OK, so I did this ...
Verify the Image
ssh-keygen -Y verify -f allowed_signers -I contact@grapheneos.org -n "factory images" -s DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip.sig < DEVICE_NAME-factory-VERSION.zip
Got this (plus a long key string) ...
Good "factory images" signature for contact@grapheneos.org with ED25519 key SHA256
But that key is not the same as this ...
contact@grapheneos.org ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIIUg/m5CoP83b0rfSCzYSVA4cw4ir49io5GPoxbgxdJE
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kd4e I don't know anything about the new keys. To be on the safe side, I would ask in the Matrix channel. https://grapheneos.org/contact#community-chat
On Github is allowed_signers.sig & allowed_signers
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/releases.grapheneos.org/tree/main/static
The key that I'm getting is different than the one on github.
I'm not sure why support is being scattered across so many different social media systems, rather than just one, it seems counter-intuitive to fragment the information. Sigh.
I see that Chat via the Thunderbird email is one alternative - at least I don't have to add yet another app. (I had no idea Thunderbird even had a Chat feature.)
I'll give it a try. I'd rather ask first than plow ahead, make a mess, then have to undo the mess and start over.
Thanks.
kd4e Signify isn't used as part of the current CLI install process. Use our official installation instructions instead of whatever unofficial guide you're following.