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question of verifying signatures
hii try to verify GPG signature of mutiple applications on windows but i failed.a friend of mine tried and failed. He said that you do not need verify GPG signature.He says it is waste of time. is it really necessary to verify GPG signature?if it is necessary, would you tell me why?thank you.
Re: question of verifying signatures [ In reply to ]
On 6/11/2022 4:24 PM, Linus Virtanen via Gnupg-users wrote:
> hii try to verify GPG signature of mutiple applications on windows but i
> failed.a friend of mine tried and failed. He said that you do not need
> verify GPG signature.He says it is waste of time. is it really necessary
> to verify GPG signature?if it is necessary, would you tell me why?thank
> you.

It is up to you to decide if you want to verify a GPG signature.

To verify a signature it is required to import a public key, look for
instructions on the site from which you downloaded what is to be verified.

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John Doe

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