Packages and Binaries:
cosign
Code signing/transparency for containers and binaries (program)
Signing OCI containers (and other artifacts) using Sigstore
Cosign supports:
- “Keyless signing” with the Sigstore public good Fulcio certificate authority and Rekor transparency log (default)
- Hardware and KMS signing
- Signing with a cosign generated encrypted private/public keypair
- Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.
- Bring-your-own PKI
This package contains the command-line tool cosign.
Installed size: 84.77 MB
How to install: sudo apt install cosign
Dependencies:
- libc6
cosign
Container Signing/Verification/Storage tool
root@kali:~# cosign -h
A tool for Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.
Usage:
cosign [command]
Available Commands:
attest Attest the supplied container image.
attest-blob Attest the supplied blob.
bundle Interact with a Sigstore protobuf bundle
clean Remove all signatures from an image.
completion Generate completion script
download Provides utilities for downloading artifacts and attached artifacts in a registry
env Prints Cosign environment variables
generate-key-pair Generates a key-pair.
help Help about any command
import-key-pair Imports a PEM-encoded RSA or EC private key.
initialize Initializes SigStore root to retrieve trusted certificate and key targets for verification.
load Load a signed image on disk to a remote registry
login Log in to a registry
public-key Gets a public key from the key-pair.
save Save the container image and associated signatures to disk at the specified directory.
sign Sign the supplied container image.
sign-blob Sign the supplied blob, outputting the base64-encoded signature to stdout.
signing-config Interact with a Sigstore protobuf signing config
tree Display supply chain security related artifacts for an image such as signatures, SBOMs and attestations
trusted-root Interact with a Sigstore protobuf trusted root
verify Verify a signature on the supplied container image
verify-attestation Verify an attestation on the supplied container image
verify-blob Verify a signature on the supplied blob
verify-blob-attestation Verify an attestation on the supplied blob
version Prints the version
Flags:
-h, --help=false:
help for cosign
--output-file='':
log output to a file
-t, --timeout=3m0s:
timeout for commands
-d, --verbose=false:
log debug output
Additional help topics:
cosign piv-tool This cosign was not built with piv-tool support!
cosign pkcs11-tool This cosign was not built with pkcs11-tool support!
Use "cosign [command] --help" for more information about a command.
golang-github-sigstore-cosign-dev
Code signing/transparency for containers and binaries (library)
Signing OCI containers (and other artifacts) using Sigstore
Cosign supports:
- “Keyless signing” with the Sigstore public good Fulcio certificate authority and Rekor transparency log (default)
- Hardware and KMS signing
- Signing with a cosign generated encrypted private/public keypair
- Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.
- Bring-your-own PKI
This package contains the Go source code.
Installed size: 2.54 MB
How to install: sudo apt install golang-github-sigstore-cosign-dev
Dependencies:
- golang-github-awslabs-amazon-ecr-credential-helper-dev
- golang-github-go-openapi-runtime-dev
- golang-github-go-openapi-strfmt-dev
- golang-github-go-openapi-swag-dev
- golang-github-google-go-cmp-dev
- golang-github-google-go-containerregistry-dev
- golang-github-google-go-github-dev
- golang-github-in-toto-attestation-dev
- golang-github-in-toto-in-toto-golang-dev
- golang-github-kelseyhightower-envconfig-dev
- golang-github-mitchellh-go-wordwrap-dev
- golang-github-moby-term-dev
- golang-github-nozzle-throttler-dev
- golang-github-open-policy-agent-opa-dev
- golang-github-pkg-errors-dev
- golang-github-secure-systems-lab-go-securesystemslib-dev
- golang-github-sigstore-fulcio-dev
- golang-github-sigstore-rekor-dev
- golang-github-sigstore-rekor-tiles-dev
- golang-github-sigstore-sigstore-dev
- golang-github-sigstore-sigstore-go-dev
- golang-github-sigstore-timestamp-authority-dev
- golang-github-smallstep-crypto-dev
- golang-github-spf13-cobra-dev
- golang-github-spf13-pflag-dev
- golang-github-spf13-viper-dev
- golang-github-spiffe-go-spiffe-dev
- golang-github-stretchr-testify-dev
- golang-github-transparency-dev-merkle-dev
- golang-github-withfig-autocomplete-tools-dev
- golang-gitlab-gitlab-org-api-client-go-dev
- golang-golang-x-crypto-dev
- golang-golang-x-oauth2-google-dev
- golang-golang-x-sync-dev
- golang-golang-x-term-dev
- golang-google-api-dev
- golang-gopkg-square-go-jose.v2-dev
- golang-k8s-api-dev
- golang-k8s-apimachinery-dev
- golang-k8s-client-go-dev
- golang-k8s-sigs-release-utils-dev
- golang-k8s-utils-dev
Updated on: 2026-Aug-25