Usign provides public key signatures using the ed25519 algorithm. The home page for the algorithm is http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/. It is described in the following paper: Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe, Bo-Yin Yang High-speed high-security signatures Journal of Cryptographic Engineering 2 (2012), 77-89 2011-09-26 http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/ed25519-20110926.pdf Signatures and keys are compatible to OpenBSD's signify utility: http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/signify.1 To build and install the package run mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install