You can sign commits and tags with GPG, and CNB verifies these signatures and marks the verification status on the repository pages. Signature verification is useful when committers want to prove to others that the changes genuinely come from them.

What Is Signature Verification

GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a signing tool based on asymmetric cryptography: you sign commits with your private key and upload the corresponding public key to CNB. When CNB receives a signed commit, it verifies the signature with your public key and checks whether the signing key matches the committer email.

A commit that passes verification displays a Verified badge, indicating that:

• The commit was indeed signed by the holder of the corresponding private key;
• The commit was not tampered with in transit.

Unsigned commits or those that fail verification do not display the Verified badge.

Managing GPG Public Keys

After logging in, go to Profile Settings → GPG Keys to add, view, and delete public keys.

Adding a Public Key

Click "Add GPG Key" and fill in the following:

• Title: An optional label for the key, for easier identification.
• Public key content: The public key in ASCII-armored format. It must start with -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- and end with -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----.

Once added, CNB parses and displays the key's fingerprint, associated emails, subkeys, and expiration time.

A public key with the same fingerprint cannot be added more than once. Always upload the public key, never the private key.

Deleting a Public Key

After you delete a public key, it can no longer be used to verify new commits going forward. However, commits that were already verified are kept and remain shown as verified.

Generating a GPG Key and Signing Commits

If you do not yet have a GPG key, generate one locally:

# Generate a key pair; enter your name and email when prompted
gpg --full-generate-key

# List the key ID (the string after rsa4096/ on the sec line)
gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long

# Export the public key in ASCII-armored format and copy the output to CNB
gpg --armor --export <YOUR_KEY_ID>

After adding the exported public key to CNB, configure Git to sign with it:

# Set the signing key
git config --global user.signingkey <YOUR_KEY_ID>

# Sign a single commit
git commit -S -m "your message"

# Or sign all commits by default
git config --global commit.gpgsign true

Email must match: The email associated with the signing key must match the committer / tagger email in the commit, and that email must be verified on your account; otherwise the commit will not be shown as verified. You can check the commit email with git config --global user.email.

Platform Default Signature (web-flow.gpg)

Commits produced directly on CNB — for example, online edits in Cloud Native Development, editing files via the web UI, merge request (MR) merges, and other commits automatically generated by the platform — are automatically signed with the platform default GPG key and shown as verified on the pages.

The platform public key can be obtained at the following URL, which can be used to verify these signatures in other tools:

https://cnb.cool/web-flow.gpg

Cross-platform note: This public key is a platform-specific CNB key, mapped one-to-one to the platform's default committer email. If you push the repository to another platform (such as GitHub) and want these commits to also be shown as verified there, the other platform needs to separately import and adapt to this public key and its email; otherwise the commits are only shown as verified on CNB.

Enabling or Disabling Official Signing for Cloud Native Development

You can control whether official GPG signing is enabled for commits in Cloud Native Development. Go to Profile Settings → Cloud Native Development and toggle GPG Verification:

• When enabled: The system automatically signs commits made in Cloud Native Development, to verify that the code comes from a trusted source.
• When disabled: Commits made in Cloud Native Development are no longer signed automatically, and those commits will not be shown as verified.

This setting applies to your account and takes effect across all of your repositories.

Third-Party Official Signature Verification

CNB can recognize and verify commits signed with the official keys of third-party platforms such as GitHub. For example, GitHub official-signed commits produced via the GitHub web UI that use noreply@github.com as the committer email will still be shown as verified after being migrated to CNB.

Verification Status Reference

CNB produces a verification result for each signature. Common statuses are as follows:

Status	Meaning
valid	The signature is valid and the commit is verified
unsigned	The commit contains no signature
unknown_signature_type	The commit or tag contains a non-PGP signature
no_user	The committer / tagger email is not associated with any user
unverified_email	A GPG key was added, but the corresponding email is not verified
bad_email	The committer email does not match the identity of the signing key
unknown_key	The signing key is not registered to any user account
expired_key	The key used for signing has expired
not_signing_key	No "signing" flag was found in the key
malformed_signature	The signature is malformed and cannot be parsed
invalid	The signature could not be cryptographically verified with the key found in it

FAQ

• Added a public key but commits still not shown as verified? Make sure the commit email matches the key's associated email, the email is verified on your account, and you actually signed locally with -S or by enabling commit.gpgsign.
• What if the key expires? After renewing or replacing the key, re-export the public key and add it to CNB again.

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