Home/ Questions/Q 7769547
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-01T16:11:11+00:00

I successfully put my private key at a place where git finds it when

  • 0

I successfully put my private key at a place where git finds it when it connects to github.
(like this https://serverfault.com/questions/194567/how-to-i-tell-git-for-windows-where-to-find-my-private-rsa-key/198691#198691 )

But when I try to sign a tag, this default magic seems not to apply. The brilliant git community book talks about an gpg-key-id, but I created my keys with puttygen, and seem not to have such an id.

So, how can I tell git a Windows machine that the key it shall use resides at ~/.ssh/id_rsa ?

Thank you, Falko

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    To sign a tag you need a GPG/PGP ID and not a SSH id. The SSH id is used to encrypt the connection and identify yourself to the server.

    The GPG works in general similar how ever there is a kind of “profile” linked to your public gpg key. To get started on with GPG on windows gpg3win is a good place to look. Also the Wikipedia entries on GPG and PGP are good places to get some insight regarding this topic.

    • 0