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Signing files using GPG
March 04, 2021 - 36 words - 1 mins
Signing a pdf document
To sign a pdf document:
gpg --output doc.pdf.sig --detach-sig doc.pdf
When sending the document send both doc.pdf and doc.pdf.sig
People can then verify the digital signature with
gpg --verify doc.pdf.sig doc.pdf
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CHEOPS and PLATO at a glance
December 18, 2019 - 663 words - 4 mins
PLATO and CHEOPS are two European Space Agency missions aimed at characterising exoplanets.
CHEOPS is an S-class mission (small mission in ESA’s science program) which aims to characterise exoplanets already known to be orbiting around nearby bright stars. CHEOPS will target Earth- to Neptune-sized …
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An open, borderless, decentralised, trustless space object catalogue. Possible or wishful thinking?
August 05, 2019 - 650 words - 4 mins
A real problem in the space situational awareness community, is the lack of a shared validated catalogue of known space debris. This holds back progress in a wide range of areas from operations to fundamental research.
Could an open, borderless, decentralised, trusteless space object catalogue be th…
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