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		aaronsnoswell on May 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ricochet: An encrypted, anonymous IM client built ... Can someone explain how to verify the .asc signature file for this? I'm not familiar with pgp.

phaer on May 25, 2015 [–]

You could have just searched for it. The last paragraph of https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x135.html says:

    gpg --verify doc.sig doc

(the difference between .sig and .asc in this case is only that the latter is plaintext)

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