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Board Electrum
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Re: [GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 26/04/2021, 20:09:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1) ,DireWolfM14 (1)
Thank you for saying that, this is actually the type of feedback I want.  Would you be willing to take some time and tell me what you found to be complicated?
There aren't many things to be mentioned about the complexity of the tutorial. As I said, you guided the reader step-by-step of how to verify the signature of the binaries, but what I find missing from this tutorial and generally from almost every tutorial on the internet is the lack of explanation. Don't get me wrong! Not the explanation that will make you succeed on verifying the signature. I'm talking about the answer to "why?".

You do not need your own private key to verify a signature, but you will need one to certify the public keys of others.
Why would I need a private key to certify the public keys of others?

Chose the email address you want to certify, there's no reason not to select them all.  Click Certify.
Why would I need to certify someone just to ensure that my electrum binaries aren't malicious? Why will I have to deal with an email address and how is it resulted from a file of non-sense characters?

Once installation is completed, and Kleopatra launches I recommend you create a private key.
Why would you recommend me to create a private key? Note that this can be very confusing for a newbie. Do I need a private key for the certification of Thomas' identity or is it just recommended after all?