LibCrypto+Userland: Add iffysign, a minisign/OpenBSD signify compatible dead simple signing and verification tool using Ed25519 cryptography

[kleinesfilmroellchen]

iffysign is Serenity’s version of minisign, which in turn is largely compatible with OpenBSD’s signify. As is tradition, Ted Unangst wrote something simple and useful that solves a very specific security problem, and we now steal it :^)

More details on the inner workings are available at the above links, but to summarize, we use Ed25519 key pairs to sign the BLAKE2b hashes of files, and can then verify the signatures using the public key. The signatures and keys are tiny and stored in base64, meaning their distribution is very easy across text-only and small-volume transmission mediums. Think QR codes and NFC tags.

To answer some of the why:

• Package management. The rough idea is to also download signatures for each package .tar.gz that pkg downloads, and check them against a known (widely distributed) public key of the package provider. We can even do the same thing as OpenBSD does and include the future public key with some package (or the git repo or package repository or whatever) and rotate keys. These are all very easy with iffysign
• Compatibility. Since we’re using a well-known format, creating and verifying the signatures without any SerenityOS tools available is trivial. On something like a Linux server that automates the package signing, minisign is likely available in the package repos. It also goes without saying that minisign and signify have almost ideal design and there is no point in reinventing a good system.
• There currently isn’t a native Serenity tool for signing and verification tasks, even though we’ve had the Ed25519 implementation for a while. (You might notice that I don’t add a single line of actual crypto in this PR.) We do have a GPG port, but OpenPGP is approximately the worst cryptosystem in widespread use.
• Fun :^)

The name was specifically chosen to not collide with either minisign or signify, to allow ports of those to coexist. (Both minisign and signify are, by their nature of self-contained unixy file I/O tools, very portable (a specifically cross-platform signify port exists), and we don’t want to prevent useful ports if we can avoid it.)

LibCrypto: Add Minisign signature tooling

This allows us to read and write minisign/signify-compatible keys and signatures, and create new key pairs and signatures. The next commit will make use of this utility in a CLI frontend.

Utilities: Add iffysign

This is a largely minisign/signify-compatible command line tool to create and verify minisign-compatible signatures and keys. It is missing some useful functionality at the moment, namely the ability to recreate public keys from private keys, more output options (quiet, verbose), and some more I/O options for stdin/stdout. It is, however, enough to provide the functionality needed for a signing and verification tool.

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