# kosa8 identity

Your personal signing key, for approvals that name who approved

An identity is an Ed25519 keypair tied to your name. When your org's
signed policy lists approvers, requests and approvals are signed with it,
so the audit log shows who asked and who agreed — and the gate can refuse
to let anyone approve their own request.

The private key stays on this machine, readable only by you. The public
key is what an administrator adds to the policy: `kosa8 identity show`
prints it ready to paste.

## Subcommands

- [`kosa8 identity init`](https://docs.kosa8.com/reference/identity-init.md): Create your signing identity
- [`kosa8 identity show`](https://docs.kosa8.com/reference/identity-show.md): Print your public identity, ready to add to an org policy

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Source: https://docs.kosa8.com/reference/identity/