[Commotion-dev] Verifying signatures

Andrew Reynolds andrew at opentechinstitute.org
Wed Jun 5 20:32:47 UTC 2013


I've seen a couple of decent walkthroughs but they're all either written
for a specific software package (e.g., tor's page) or a specific
operating system.

I suspect we could cherry pick from several pages faster than we could
find one well written page that covers exactly what we need.

-andrew

On 06/05/2013 04:03 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> I'm in the process of adding signatures to the binaries on our Download
> page. I wanted to get folks' opinions on how to best instruct users on
> how to verify GPG signatures. The best resource we've found is Tor's
> page: https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en, but
> it is a bit too specific to Tor itself in my opinion, and so we probably
> wouldn't want to just link to it and leave it at that.
> 
> Does anyone else know of any good tutorials on how to verify GPG
> signatures, tailored for someone who might not have even used GPG
> before? If we can't find something better than Tor's instructions, I
> might just write up our own tutorial tailored to Commotion, borrowing a
> lot from Tor's page.
> 
> Dan
> 


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