[sf-lug] check release signatures

Ken Shaffer kenshaffer80 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 19:40:55 PDT 2021


Here's the Ubuntu howto, pretty much the same steps for the others.
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-verify-ubuntu#1-overview
Ken

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 6:39 PM Alex Kleider <alexkleider at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> In a recent posting Rick has strongly advocated that one "check release
> signatures" of distro downloads.
> Perhaps he or someone else would be kind enough to point to a place (a
> "HOWTO" for example) where one can learn how to do this.  I've previously
> assumed if one checks the 'checksum' all is well but Rick warns that this
> is not so (and his arguments certainly make sense, at least to me.) TIA
> Alex
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