diff --git a/content/en/language_clients/go/overview.md b/content/en/language_clients/go/overview.md index 3bea0bae..c2abd694 100644 --- a/content/en/language_clients/go/overview.md +++ b/content/en/language_clients/go/overview.md @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ title: Go Client Overview weight: 5 --- -[`sigstore-go`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go) is the Go language client for Sigstore. +[`sigstore-go`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go) is the Go language client library for Sigstore. -[Cosign](../../cosign/signing/overview.md) is a command line utility that is used to sign software artifacts and verify signatures using Sigstore and is also written in Go. `sigstore-go` is a lighter weight tool and boasts the following benefits: +`sigstore-go` is intended as a minimal dependency library for signing and verifying. It's not intended to replace [cosign](../../cosign/signing/overview.md), which provides a CLI with many features for interacting with Sigstore. Over time, `cosign` will use `sigstore-go` for verification. - Friendly API for integrating Go code with Sigstore - Smaller dependency tree