• humuhumu@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    for some reasons, I can’t verify the signature of the files.

    I downloaded tail-signing.key from https://tails.net/tails-signing.key

    then made a keyring file.

    ran gpgv --keyring ./tails.keyring tails-amd64-6.4.img.sig tails-amd64-6.4.img

    it gave me error saying using EDDSA key 26D26… Can’t check signature: No public key.

    I even tried using the same keyring for 6.3 and it was fine. Only for this version I;m having trouble.

    Anyone would please confirm the SHA256SUM if you could verify the signature?

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      12 days ago

      How does making a keyring file work ? I tried it by importing the signing key into my keyring and then ran gpgv tails-amd64-6.4.img.sig tails-amd64-6.4.img which also gives : gpgv: Can't check signature: No public key

      Found this, which appears to suggest to use other verification methods : https://tails.net/contribute/design/download_verification/#index2h1

      OpenPGP verification instructions

      We removed the instructions to verify downloads with OpenPGP because:

      Without advanced knowledge of OpenPGP, verifying with OpenPGP provides the same level of security as the JavaScript verification on the download page, while being much more complicated and error-prone.

      None of our personas would have enough knowledge of OpenPGP to use the OpenPGP Web of Trust with confidence.

      Providing basic (and never exhaustive) instructions has proven to be very time consuming to our help desk and technical writers. See #17900.

      We still explain how to verify our signing key using the OpenPGP Web of Trust in the installation instructions from Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint using the command line and GnuPG because Debian derivatives come with trusted OpenPGP keys that can be used to create a path to our signing key.