[NMLUG] Signing a document with my SSH key, not a PGP key?

[jamesh at netris.com (James Hamilton)]

Interesting question, I found sign http://swapped.cc/sign/ while looking
around.  Never thought of using ssh keys for that purpose.  Perhaps
someone will pipe up with a reason it's good/bad...

James

Kelly Jones wrote:
> I want to sign a document with ~/.ssh/id_dsa so that people who have
> my public SSH key (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) can confirm that it's from me. I
> don't want to encrypt the document, just sign it.
> 
> How can I do this? Is it a good idea? Does ssh-keysign (which is
> disabled by default) play into it?
> 
> I know how to sign things using a PGP key, but was wondering if an SSH
> key would work as well?
>