Bumping this because I still don't see a good way to verify windows binaries after a brief search on the latest client.

The release announcement for the latest 0.8.4 does not include any signatures like some old ones did

What is much worse is source forge seems to only allow http downloads. Manually changing it to https seems to redirect me to http on the mirror and sourceforge webpages I tried.

So I guess my ask is to include signed sha256 sums in all release announcements and on the bitcoin.org websites download page since many people wont go and find the announcements.

And a tutorial link similar to what these guys have put together would also be helpful I think for newbies