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Verify Git tag signatures with HMAC in Python

Create and verify deterministic HMAC-SHA256 signatures for git tags using the Python standard library.

hmac git security
Python 
import hashlib
import hmac


def sign_tag(tag: str, secret_key: str) -> str:
    """Create a deterministic HMAC signature for a tag."""
    message = tag.encode("utf-8")
    key = secret_key.encode("utf-8")
    return hmac.new(key, message, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()


def verify_signed_tag(tag: str, signature: str, …
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