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What is GitHub's public GPG key?

If you make an edit through GitHub's website, or merge a pull request, then the resulting commits are automatically signed with GitHub's GPG key. It looks like this:

GitHub GPG key - This commit was created on GitHub.com and signed with a verified signature using GitHub's key

I would like to have the full public key so that I can add it as a trusted key on my system. What is GitHub's public GPG key?

Solution

  • GitHub sets the committer for all commits made using their web interface to the user web-flow.

    For any given GitHub account, you can add .gpg to its URL to get its public key—so for web-flow, you can find it at https://github.com/web-flow.gpg:

    -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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=HXDP
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

    You can then import and trust that public key.

    As shown in this thread:

    $ curl https://github.com/web-flow.gpg | gpg --import
$ gpg --edit-key noreply@github.com
gpg> trust
gpg> save
$ gpg --lsign-key noreply@github.com