Re: what is that .sig file

From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 04/29/05

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:45:13 +0200

    Am Fr, den 29.04.2005 schrieb lin q um 19:37:

    > I am trying to download gdb from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/ and I see for
    > each gdb zip file, there is a .sig file with the same name.
    >
    > What is that .sig file used for?

    For verification of integrity of the signed sources container. Explained
    how to verify i.e.

    http://www.sendmail.org/pgp.html
    http://httpd.apache.org/dev/verification.html
    http://la-samhna.de/library/PGPSignatures.html

    Alexander 

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