I haven't verified a PGP signature in a long time so I guess I'm doing something wrong. But I was hoping I can get a fresh view on how I can go about it or is the official walkthrough the best and easiest way to go about and I should just re-read and attempt it over again to figure out what I did wrong?
What OS did you use to install Electrum?
Make sure you download it from the official site: https://electrum.org/#download; https://download.electrum.org
and also check whether the PGP signature matches the public key or fingerprint of one of the developers, for example, ThomasV:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spesmilo/electrum/master/pubkeys/ThomasV.asc
Primary key fingerprint: 6694 D8DE 7BE8 EE56 31BE D950 2BD5 824B 7F94 70E6
Below is an example of verifying a PGP signature from an Electrum wallet using Windows OS:
- Download Primary key fingerprint ThomasV.
- Go to the directory where the Electrum and signature files have been downloaded
- Verification
The following is an example of a screenshot:
For MacOS, there are only slight differences; you can see the following example:
