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Topic
Board Electrum
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Re: Electrum Personal Server 0.2.0 Released
by
HCP
on 24/12/2019, 04:04:11 UTC
⭐ Merited by Heisenberg_Hunter (1)
user@user~/Downloads$ gpg --verify eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc
You're not verifying what you think you're verifying... You're trying to verify one .asc file, using another .asc file!!?! Tongue

You need to verify the matching binary file that goes with the .asc (ie. the ".tar.gz" or the ".zip")...

Try:
Code:
gpg --verify eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc  electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz


or

Code:
gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip


Theoretically, you could just use "gpg --verify the_binary_filename.asc"... but ONLY if the .asc file has exactly the same name as the .zip file... so, it'd work with the windows_release .zip...

"electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc" == "electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip" + .asc
So, this works:
Code:
gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc

Quote
user@user~/Downloads$ gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip'
gpg: Signature made Thu Dec  5 23:57:57 2019 NZDT
gpg:                using RSA key EF734EA677F31129
gpg: Good signature from "Chris Belcher <false@email.com>" [unknown]


But, it won't work with the .tar.gz as it has a different name to the .asc
"eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc" =/= "electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz" +.asc Undecided
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user@user~/Downloads$  gpg --verify eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc
gpg: no signed data
gpg: can't hash datafile: No data

You could also just rename the "tar.gz.asc" from "eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc" to "electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc" and then the command would work:
Quote
user@user~/Downloads$  gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz'
gpg: Signature made Thu Dec  5 22:51:58 2019 NZDT
gpg:                using RSA key EF734EA677F31129
gpg: Good signature from "Chris Belcher <false@email.com>" [unknown]