Canary Helper

This is a shell file for you to generate warrant canaries easily.

Templates derived from canaries of BLUG (Beijing LUG). Changing it in run.sh if you want to.

Requirements

• date
• gpg
• rsstail
  • Also on AUR
  • You can also use rsstail from PyPi. In this case, use run-py.sh instead of run.sh since they accept different parameters.

Usage

Remember to fill in signers.txt and special.txt with whatever you want to.

• signers.txt: Signers of the canaries.
• special.txt: Special notes contained in the canaries.

$ ./run.sh     # if you use rsstail of flok9
# ./run.py.sh  # if you use rsstail from PyPi

It will generate these files for you:

• canary-YYYYMM.txt
• canary-YYYYMM.txt.asc

Known Issues

• Some Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) entries may contain non-breaking space (\xa0). It won't affect the verification of this file itself, but could be problematic when republishing the file in text without proper transformation.

License

MIT License