Adding a GPG key to your GitHub account

About addition of GPG keys to your account

To sign commits associated with your account on GitHub, you can add a public GPG key to your personal account. Before you add a key, you should check for existing keys. If you don't find any existing keys, you can generate and copy a new key. For more information, see "Checking for existing GPG keys" and "Generating a new GPG key."

You can add multiple public keys to your account on GitHub. Commits signed by any of the corresponding private keys will show as verified. If you remove a public key, any commits signed by the corresponding private key will no longer show as verified.

To verify as many of your commits as possible, you can add expired and revoked keys. If the key meets all other verification requirements, commits that were previously signed by any of the corresponding private keys will show as verified and indicate that their signing key is expired or revoked.

支持的 GPG 密钥算法

GitHub 支持多种 GPG 密钥算法。 如果您尝试添加使用不支持的算法生成的密钥，可能会发生错误。

• RSA
• ElGamal
• DSA
• ECDH
• ECDSA
• EdDSA

When verifying a signature, GitHub extracts the signature and attempts to parse its key ID. The key ID is then matched with keys added to GitHub. Until a matching GPG key is added to GitHub, it cannot verify your signatures.

Adding a GPG key

1. 在任何页面的右上角，单击个人资料照片，然后单击“设置”。

   

2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click SSH and GPG keys.

3. Click New GPG key.

4. In the "Key" field, paste the GPG key you copied when you generated your GPG key.

5. Click Add GPG key.

6. To confirm the action, enter your GitHub password.

Further reading

• "Checking for existing GPG keys"
• "Generating a new GPG key"
• "Telling Git about your signing key"
• "Associating an email with your GPG key"
• "Signing commits and tags using GPG keys"
• "About commit signature verification"