Validating Tor Software
A.1 Validating Tor Software with Gnu Privacy Guard
Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is the leading OpenPGP-compatible software for public key cryptography, which includes validating digital signatures. It is included by default on most Linux distributions, so acquiring a trusted version of Linux is the simplest and safest way to get the software necessary to validate signed downloads.
To validate a Tor download, follow these steps:
• Download the desired package (e.g., version of TBB appropriate for your system). The file will be named something like “TorBrowser-2.3.25-6-osx-i386-en-US.zip.”
• Download the signature file, named something like “TorBrowser-2.3.25-6-osx-i386-en-US.zip.asc” (in other words, the same ...
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