Kyrylo Kovalenko kirillkovalenko

GPG + Git SSH Authentication and Signing on Windows 10

Introduction

This simple Gist will explain how to settup your GPG key to work for SSH authentication (with Git) and Git commit signing on Windows 10. This may seem straightforward on Linux, but there are certain tweaks needed on Windows.

No Cygwin, no MinGW, no Git Bash or any other Linux emulated environment. This works in pure Windows 10.

Software needed

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

Powershell Remoting to a Non-Domain Host

From an admin shell, enable PS remoting on the machine you wish to access:

New-ItemProperty -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy `
  -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System `
  -PropertyType DWord -Value 1

Enable-PsRemoting -Force

	// IMPORTANT
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Text;

	// This gist was created thanks to this comment from Alexander on StackOverflow:
	// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/249087/how-do-i-remove-diacritics-accents-from-a-string-in-net#comment86833005_34272324

	// This is a derivative work. The logic of this function comes from a switch statement found inside the
	// Lucene.Net library. The documentation of the conversion of characters is quite impressive
	// (thank you @NightOwl888 and @synhershko !!!):

	using Newtonsoft.Json;
	using System;
	using System.Collections.Concurrent;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
	using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
	using System.Dynamic;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Linq.Expressions;
	using System.Net;