Quote from: DireWolfM14 on Today at 05:22:14 PM

Although there's nothing wrong with that, I fail to see how that's faster. GPG can verify the 28 megabyte windows installer file in just a few second (if that,) it takes me longer to type out the command.

I meant faster for the newbies who want to verify their executables. I don't know about the others but when I firstly verified electrum using this tutorial, I wasn't completely sure of what I was doing. I was feeling secure with the replies and with the greatly described steps, but I considered the method kinda complex. To be honest, I wasn't into anything related with Bitcoin a year ago, as you can see in the first page of this thread, so this is maybe why. Lips sealed

Or I may simply have this weirdly paranoid symptom in which you want to understand every-single-thing you're doing, on a disgustingly detailed way, such as understanding the maths behind RSA/ECC. Anyway. Signed checksums might had a shorter tutorial than this one. Although, you're explaining everything perfectly.

Quote from: DireWolfM14 on Today at 05:22:14 PM

They don't like that approach due to slight risk of checksum collisions.

While, they may prefer not to do this with the checksum-way, I personally find it ridiculous for them to justify it with the collisions. Despite the fact that it's never going to happen you're essentially failing the function your entire project relies on. It's ironic...