I have started to distribute software with GnuPG-produced digital
signatures to help prove the authenticity of the software. If you
want to verify the digital signature of a file such as
jed-0.99.18.tar.gz, then also download the associated detached
signature file, which in this example would be
jed-0.99.18.tar.gz.sig and execute the following command:
You should see something like:
You should not be alarmed if you see the warning message. This just
indicates that you have not taken steps to ensure the authenticity of
of my signature. Note that the key's fingerprint must match the
my public key's fingerprint, which is given below.
If you see a message such as:
then you will first need to obtain my public key and add
it to your keyring. My public key may be obtained by downloading the
ascii file jedavis_public_key.asc. To add it to your
keyring, use
and then verify that its fingerprint is
by running
This page was last updated Nov 10, 2007 by John E. Davis. To comment on it or the material presented here, send email to jed at jedsoft org.