Verifying PGP Signature to be 100% positive I'm downloading what I intend to.
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Verifying PGP Signature to be 100% positive I'm downloading what I intend to.
I'm hoping someone here can give me a simple and step by step instruction guide that will help me verify the files of my qbittorrent download to make sure I'm not potentially downloading anything nefarious.
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Re: Verifying PGP Signature to be 100% positive I'm downloading what I intend to.
Should I be posting this topic in another part of the forum that's more appropriate?
Re: Verifying PGP Signature to be 100% positive I'm downloading what I intend to.
Ha, this always comes up. I always test it myself, it works for me and it doesn't for the user.
Not sure what to tell ya.
- get the sig from website
- import sig with gpg
- grab the installer you'd like
- grab the signature for the installer
- check gpg --verify
- it's OK, "Good signature"
that's about it.
Not sure what to tell ya.
- get the sig from website
- import sig with gpg
- grab the installer you'd like
- grab the signature for the installer
- check gpg --verify
- it's OK, "Good signature"
that's about it.
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Re: Verifying PGP Signature to be 100% positive I'm downloading what I intend to.
I was hoping that there might be an official Qbittorrent Guide that is slightly more detailed than that?
I can't remember where to find the SHA256 in the files I've downloaded to compare it to the provided hash files or whatever.... again I'm new to this all!
P.S. I just figured it out I was checking the downloaded Qbittorrent file itself instead of the signature file lol.
I can't remember where to find the SHA256 in the files I've downloaded to compare it to the provided hash files or whatever.... again I'm new to this all!
P.S. I just figured it out I was checking the downloaded Qbittorrent file itself instead of the signature file lol.
Last edited by porkandbeansboy on Tue May 28, 2024 2:44 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Verifying PGP Signature to be 100% positive I'm downloading what I intend to.
Well the newest stupid update was just downloaded without my permission and I don't when or how that happened and more disturbing is I didn't conduct any PGP verification or anything so I don't what just happened???