what is that .sig file

Alex White prata at kuei-jin.org
Fri Apr 29 17:46:00 UTC 2005


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lin q wrote:
| Hi,
|  I am trying to download gdb from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/ and
I see
| for each gdb zip file, there is a .sig file with the same name.
|
| What is that .sig file used for?

That is the signature of the file you are downloading. So that you
can verify that you A. have a good download, and B. verify that the
downloaded file you have is in fact untampered with. Or otherwise
not what you expected.

HTH

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