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Topic
Board Electrum
Re: How to find real Electrum?
by
bob123
on 11/02/2019, 13:17:41 UTC
But developers can post hashes of files here on bitcointalk. Or in twitter. In second source. It's 99.9% secure!
Why not to do this?
This section consist of million threads, where people complain about electrum wallet phishing

There is no need for this bullshit.

Just VERIFY THE SIGNATURE.

There is absolutely NO reason for checking the hashes. All files are signed by TomasV's PGP key.
Signatures should always be MORE TRUSTED than hashes compared with hashes posted on a website / forum.

There are quite a few tutorials available on how to get the PGP key and how to verify the signature.
If you want to be sure that you got the original electrum (and not a fake / malicious version), verify the signature or build it yourself from source.