diff --git a/Atomic/atomic.py b/Atomic/atomic.py
index b1d35f96..ac209e66 100644
--- a/Atomic/atomic.py
+++ b/Atomic/atomic.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.useTTY = True
         self.syscontainers = SystemContainers()
         self.run_opts = None
+        self.atomic_config = util.get_atomic_config()
 
     def __enter__(self):
         return self
diff --git a/Atomic/sign.py b/Atomic/sign.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4f5e9691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Atomic/sign.py
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+from . import util
+from . import Atomic
+import os
+import tempfile
+from .atomic import AtomicError
+import re
+
+
+ATOMIC_CONFIG = util.get_atomic_config()
+
+def cli(subparser):
+    # atomic sign
+    signer = ATOMIC_CONFIG.get('default_signer', None)
+    signp = subparser.add_parser("sign",
+                                 help="Sign an image",
+                                 epilog="Create a signature for an image which can be "
+                                        "used later to verify it.")
+    signp.set_defaults(_class=Sign, func="sign")
+    signp.add_argument("images", nargs="*", help=_("images to sign"))
+    signp.add_argument("--signed-by", dest="sign_key", default=signer,
+                       help=_("Name of the signing key. Currently %s, "
+                              "default can be defined in /etc/atomic.conf" % signer))
+    signp.add_argument("-o", dest="output", default=None,
+                       help=_("The filename of the signature"))
+
+
+class Sign(Atomic):
+    def sign(self):
+        # TODO
+        # Atomic is run as sudo. Should we work around that?
+
+        if self.args.debug:
+            util.write_out(str(self.args))
+
+        signature_path = util.get_local_signature_path(self.atomic_config)
+
+        signer = self.args.sign_key
+
+        for sign_image in self.args.images:
+            remote_inspect_info = util.skopeo_inspect("docker://{}".format(sign_image))
+            manifest = util.skopeo_inspect('docker://{}'.format(sign_image), args=['--raw'], return_json=False)
+            try:
+                manifest_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="wb", delete=False)
+                manifest_file.write(manifest)
+                manifest_file.close()
+                manifest_hash = str(util.skopeo_manifest_digest(manifest_file.name))
+
+                expanded_image_name = str(remote_inspect_info['Name'])
+                sigstore_path = "{}/{}/{}@{}".format(signature_path, os.path.dirname(expanded_image_name),
+                                                     os.path.basename(expanded_image_name), manifest_hash)
+                self.make_sig_dirs(sigstore_path)
+                sig_name = self.args.output if self.args.output is not None else self.get_sig_name(sigstore_path)
+                fq_sig_path = os.path.join(sigstore_path, sig_name)
+                if os.path.exists(fq_sig_path):
+                    raise ValueError("The signature {} already exists.  If you wish to "
+                                     "overwrite it, please delete this file first")
+
+                util.skopeo_standalone_sign(expanded_image_name, manifest_file.name,
+                                            self.get_fingerprint(signer), fq_sig_path)
+                util.write_out("Created: {}".format(fq_sig_path))
+
+            finally:
+                os.remove(manifest_file.name)
+
+    def check_input_validity(self):
+        try:
+            for image in self.args.images:
+                self._is_image(image)
+        except AtomicError:
+            raise ValueError("{} is not a valid image".format(image))
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_fingerprint(signer):
+        cmd = ['gpg', '--no-permission-warning', '--with-colons', '--fingerprint', signer]
+        return_code, stdout, stderr = util.subp(cmd, newline=True)
+        if return_code is not 0:
+            raise ValueError(stderr)
+        for line in stdout.splitlines():
+            if line.startswith('fpr:'):
+                return line.split(":")[9]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def make_sig_dirs(sig_path):
+        if not os.path.exists(sig_path):
+            # TODO
+            # perhaps revisit directory permissions
+            # when complete use-cases are known
+            os.makedirs(sig_path, '0777')
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_sig_name2(sig_path):
+        def missing_ints(aoi):
+            # Returns a list of integers in range
+            start, end = 1, max(aoi) + 1
+            if start == end and start is not 1:
+                start = 1
+            _diff = sorted(set(range(start, end)).difference(aoi))
+            if len(_diff) == 0:
+                return end
+            else:
+                return min(_diff)
+
+        sigs = []
+        for sig in os.listdir(sig_path):
+            if re.match(r"signature-\b[0-9]+\b(?!\.[0-9])", sig):
+                sigs.append(int(sig.replace("signature-", "")))
+
+        sigs.sort()
+        if len(sigs) == 0:
+            return "signature-1"
+        # In the event signature-0 exists
+        if sigs[0] == 0:
+            del sigs[0]
+        missing = missing_ints(sigs)
+        if missing == 0:
+            sig_int = max(sigs) + 1
+        else:
+            sig_int = missing
+        return "signature-{}".format(sig_int)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_sig_name(sig_path):
+        sig_files = set(os.listdir(sig_path))
+        sig_int = 1
+        while True:
+            name = "signature-{}".format(sig_int)
+            if name not in sig_files:
+                return name
+            sig_int += 1
diff --git a/Atomic/util.py b/Atomic/util.py
index ba08e43d..446a8c09 100644
--- a/Atomic/util.py
+++ b/Atomic/util.py
@@ -98,12 +98,13 @@ def image_by_name(img_name, images=None):
     return valid_images
 
 
-def subp(cmd, cwd=None):
+def subp(cmd, cwd=None, newline=False):
     # Run a command as a subprocess.
     # Return a triple of return code, standard out, standard err.
     proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, cwd=cwd,
                             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=True)
+                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=True,
+                            universal_newlines=newline)
     out, err = proc.communicate()
     return ReturnTuple(proc.returncode, stdout=out, stderr=err)
 
@@ -246,7 +247,7 @@ def urllib3_disable_warnings():
             if hasattr(urllib3, 'disable_warnings'):
                 urllib3.disable_warnings()
 
-def skopeo_inspect(image, args=None):
+def skopeo_inspect(image, args=None, return_json=True, newline=False):
     if not args:
         args=[]
 
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ def skopeo_inspect(image, args=None):
 
     cmd = ['skopeo', 'inspect'] + args + [image]
     try:
-        results = subp(cmd)
+        results = subp(cmd, newline=newline)
     except OSError:
         raise ValueError("skopeo must be installed to perform remote inspections")
     if results.return_code is not 0:
@@ -265,7 +266,10 @@ def skopeo_inspect(image, args=None):
         check_v1_registry(image)
         raise ValueError("Unable to interact with this registry: {}".format(results.stderr))
     else:
-        return json.loads(results.stdout.decode('utf-8'))
+        if return_json:
+            return json.loads(results.stdout.decode('utf-8'))
+        else:
+            return results.stdout
 
 
 def skopeo_delete(image, args=None):
@@ -318,6 +322,23 @@ def skopeo_layers(image, args=None, layers=None):
             shutil.rmtree(temp_dir)
     return temp_dir
 
+def skopeo_standalone_sign(image, manifest_file_name, fingerprint, signature_path):
+    cmd = ['skopeo', 'standalone-sign', manifest_file_name,
+                       image, fingerprint, "-o", signature_path]
+    try:
+        results = subp(cmd)
+    except Exception as e: # pylint: disable=broad-except
+        raise ValueError(e)
+    if results.return_code is not 0:
+        raise ValueError(results.stderr)
+
+def skopeo_manifest_digest(manifest_file):
+    cmd = ['skopeo', 'manifest-digest', manifest_file]
+    try:
+        results = subp(cmd)
+    except Exception: #pylint: disable=broad-except
+        raise ValueError(results.stderr)
+    return results.stdout.rstrip().decode()
 
 def check_v1_registry(image):
     # Skopeo cannot interact with a v1 registry
@@ -354,7 +375,12 @@ def get_atomic_config_item(config_items, atomic_config=None):
     Lookup and return the atomic configuration file value
     for a given structure. Returns None if the option
     cannot be found.
+
+    ** config_items must be a list!
     """
+
+    assert isinstance(config_items, list)
+
     def _recursive_get(atomic_config, items):
         yaml_struct = atomic_config
         try:
@@ -498,3 +524,11 @@ def validate_manifest(spec, img_rootfs=None, img_tar=None, keywords=""):
     if keywords:
         cmd += ['-k',keywords]
     return subp(cmd)
+
+def get_local_signature_path(atomic_conf):
+    # If signature path is defined, get it; else return default
+    signature_path = get_atomic_config_item(['default-sigstore-path'], atomic_config=atomic_conf)
+    if signature_path is None:
+        signature_path = '/var/lib/atomic/sigstore'
+    return signature_path
+
diff --git a/atomic b/atomic
index dfe3f980..4d56405a 100755
--- a/atomic
+++ b/atomic
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from Atomic import push
 from Atomic import stop
 from Atomic import uninstall
 from Atomic import update
+from Atomic import sign
 from Atomic.util import write_err, NoDockerDaemon
 import traceback
 from Atomic.mount import MountError
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ def create_parser(help_text):
     pull.cli(subparser)
     run.cli(subparser)
     scan.cli(subparser)
+    sign.cli(subparser)
     stop.cli(subparser)
     storage.cli(subparser)
     top.cli(subparser)
diff --git a/docs/atomic-sign.1.md b/docs/atomic-sign.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c44f2e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/atomic-sign.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+% ATOMIC(1) Atomic Man Pages
+% Brent Baude
+% August 2016
+# NAME
+atomic-sign- Create a signature for an image
+
+**WARNING**
+
+Only use **atomic sign** if you trust the remote registry which contains the image
+(preferably by being the only administrator of it).
+
+
+# SYNOPSIS
+**atomic sign**
+[**-h**|**--help**]
+
+[**-o**, **--output**]
+[**--sign_key**]
+[ image ... ]
+
+# DESCRIPTION
+**atomic sign** will create a local signature for one or more local images that have 
+been pulled from a registry. Unless overridden, the signature will end up in the 
+the default storage location (/var/lib/atomic/containers) for signatures.  A different
+default location can be defined in /etc/atomic.conf with the key **default-sigstore-path**.
+
+# OPTIONS
+**-h** **--help**
+  Print usage statement.
+
+**-o** **--output**
+  Assign a specific signature file name; otherwise, the file name is generated.  
+ 
+
+**--signed-by**
+  Override the default identity of the signature. You can define a default in /etc/atomic.conf
+  with the key **default_signer**.
+
+
+# EXAMPLES
+Sign the foobar image from privateregistry.example.com
+
+    atomic sign privateregistry.example.com/foobar
+    
+Sign the foobar image with a specific signature name.
+
+    atomic sign -o foobar.sig privateregistry.example.com
+
+Sign the busybox image with the identify of foo@bar.com
+
+    atomic --signed-by foo@bar.com privateregistry.example.com
+
+
+# HISTORY
+Initial revision by Brent Baude (bbaude at redhat dot com) August 2016