How to determine who signed what

Rejo Zenger rejo at zenger.nl
Mon Jun 2 23:03:54 CEST 2014


++ 01/06/14 19:45 +0200 - frank ernest:
>   Hi again, I have been browsing and downloading gpg signed files and I'm
>   acctually been downloading the sigs! However, I'm having trouble figuring
>   out who signed what. Is there some way to determin this using the sig?
>   Perhaps it has the keys fingerpinnt in it or something. For obvious things
>   like the linux kernel source Linus himself signs it, but on an old ftp
>   server, serving old now dead projects, who signed what is not quite so
>   clear.

I presume this is clear?

  rejo at broop-kidron:~/Downloads$ gpg --verify 
  TorBrowser-3.6.1-osx32_en-US.dmg.asc TorBrowser-3.6.1-osx32_en-US.dmg
  gpg: Signature made Wed May  7 01:36:52 2014 CEST
  gpg:                using RSA key 0x416F061063FEE659
  gpg: Good signature from "Erinn Clark <erinn at torproject.org>" [full]
  gpg:                 aka "Erinn Clark <erinn at debian.org>" [full]
  gpg:                 aka "Erinn Clark <erinn at double-helix.org>" [full]

So, this tells you the (valid) signature has been made with the key 
0x416F061063FEE659. 

Does that answer your question?

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Rejo Zenger
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XMPP OTR  271A 9186 AFBC 8124 18CF  4BE2 E000 E708 F811 5ACF
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