FileSigner

Helps prepend your signature to files created by you. The signature is in form of your name and a timestamp of when the file was created. See screenshots at the end for how a signed file looks like.

How to use

Via the command line

• clone the repository here
• change your current directory to the FileSigner directory then,
• run python main.py --dir_path=[path to directory or file to be signed] --author=[name of the file owner]
• if specified --dir_path is a folder, it will sign all supported files in that folder. But if a file is specified, it will sign it if supported

Windows application

• Download the installer file here
• once the .exe file is installed, the FileSigner application is automatically added to the registry file
• To sign files in a folder, simply right click in the window of the current folder then click Sign here in the context menu that pops up to sign all files in that folder

A file cannot be signed more than once. the scripts checks if a file has been signed before attempting to sign again

Note

Command Line Application

• Using the application via the command line allows you to sign a single file and all files in a folder
• You have to specify the author name and directory path explicitly

Windows Application

• No need to specify the directory path or the author name. The name of the current user is automatically used to sign the file
• Only files in a directory can be signed. Single file cannnot be signed

Supported files types

{py,java,js,c,php,kt,go,pl,rb,xml,cofee,css,html,dart}

How to contribute

• To improve the windows application, look inside the app folder
• To improve the command line application, simply look at the main.py file
• To test your implementation, look inside the test folder and write test for your new implementation in the test.py file Contribution ideas
  • implement an optimal algorithm to check if a file has already been signed before
  • Allow the window application to support signing of a single file
  • Add support for more file types
  • Add support for files that doesn't support multi-line comments. e.g R files

Sample