Signature

• 1. Property keyName
• 2. Property sig

Title: Signature

Description: A cryptographic signature along with the name of the key that produced it.

This schema describes the JSON representation of signatures as used in various Nix JSON APIs.

Version History

• Version 1: Colon-separated string in the format <key-name>:<signature-in-Base64>

• Version 2: Structured object with keyName and sig fields

1. Property keyName

Title: Key Name

Description: The name of the key used to produce this signature

2. Property sig

Title: Signature Data

Description: The raw signature bytes, Base64-encoded

Examples

Simple signature

{
    "keyName": "cache.nixos.org-1",
    "sig": "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
}