gpg checking downloads

David dgboles at comcast.net
Sat Apr 4 13:05:23 UTC 2009


On 4/3/2009 10:43 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 22:16:16 -0400
> Todd Zullinger wrote:

>> find their way to the
>> verification page

> find their way eventually yea, but if you go directly to
> the beta download page, there is nothing, and it takes
> quite a bit of searching to finally stumble across it.

> Even doing an advanced search in google restricted to
> the fedoraproject web site didn't locate the string
> that gpg --verify *-CHECKSUM prints because the web
> pages all have 0xD22E77F2 listed as the key ID and
> gpg merely prints D22E77F2 without the 0x and google
> apparently doesn't find it that way :-).


The '0x' is a given. An assumed thing. Every gpg key starts with '0x'.

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  David




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