[adelie-users] Re: Verifying hashes and signatures

From: Cláudio Vieira <cldvr_at_claudiovieira.me>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 17:09:11 +0200

Hello Max,

Thank you for a fast reply. That was exactly the information I needed!

Verification of Adélie hashes and signatures was successful, as expected.

I have registered at code.foxkit.us and will submit a merge request shortly.

Regards,
Cláudio Vieira

> On 14 May 2020, at 05:27, Max Rees <maxcrees(a)me.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu May 14 04:19 AM, Cláudio Vieira wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Having discovered Adélie Linux very recently I became keen on
>> exploring it and joining the party!
>
> Yay!
>
>> I was not able to find anywhere instructions on how to verify the
>> hashes and signatures of distribution files made available for
>> download.
>
> You'll have to fiddle with importing the key and assigning an
> appropriate trust to it, but once you do that:
>
> gpg --verify filename.asc filename
>
>> Verifying the SHA hashes is no problem at all.
>>
>> Verifying the PGP signatures requires the public key used for signing.
>> Which key is it (fingerprint)? Where to get it from?
>
> It seems a lot of the public keyservers are having problems at the
> moment, but these seem to work:
>
> https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8CDC963983D4D5269348C1C7CB29CB51922B9D14
> http://pool.sks-keyservers.net/key/0xCB29CB51922B9D14
>
> I've also attached a copy. The fingerprint is
> 8CDC963983D4D5269348C1C7CB29CB51922B9D14.
>
>> I know how to do these verifications and will contribute to the
>> documentation by writing a section on this topic.
>
> Please do! You can submit a merge request to our documentation project
> (preferred) or try to add something to the wiki (though I think we would
> need to manually approve your account).
>
> Max
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