Great read.

I agree about the culture problem. People want to slap extra encryption into things, like a spoiler on a hatchback.

The core issue is that the problem being addressed by signed commits is already solved.

Did MajorHavoc write this commit?

If it has my username, on GitHub, you're confident it's my commit.

Alternately, it could be someone with so much access to my SSH keys, or to GitHib's infrastructure, that they could easily sign commits as me, anyway.

Signed commits might become more compelling when we start to favor fully open source federated git solutions. At that point, if I'm famously trustworthy, and the repo I submitted a signed commit to is not, then my signature could mean something.

But even then, there's the risk that someone interprets my 4 minute typo fix as my having some clue whether the repo is actually safe to use...