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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Choosing dialog like this:Leave the boxes ticked at their defaults and go to the next step of the installer. When the installation is finished, go to the Windows Start Menu and look for a program named "Kleopatra", and launch it. If you see the following window then GPG4Win has been successfully installed.Click on the Import button, and navigate to the location you saved the Electrum signing key in (you may have to change the Filter at the bottom right to "All Files" to see the key). Then Kleopatra will give you a message requesting to certify the key:Click yes, and then tick all of the email addresses in the next window to finish the process.After you close the window by clicking the Certify button, click on the Decrypt/Verify button on the main window, and select the signature corresponding to the Electrum binary you have downloaded. If verification is successful, you will get the following window. Otherwise, the signature doesn't match the binary, and you need to download both of them again, and check the URL of the site you are downloading from.The Kleopatra message when signature verification succeeds.The Kleopatra error message when signature verification fails.MacOSOn MacOS, you should use the GPG tools suite from GPGTools: https://gpgtools.org/. Download the .dmg file, double click on it and drag its contents to the Applications folder that appears to start the installation.Inside the installer, click on the Customize button, and uncheck the boxes for the Mail clients. They are not necessary to verify signatures, and are trialware.After the installer is finished, GPG Keychain should open automatically. If not, then open Finder and navigate to the Applications folder to open it yourself. You will be presented with this dialog:GPG Keychain needs to create a keypair to certify other public keys. Choose a name, email address and password that you will remember. Leave the rest of the options at their default and click on Generate Key.In the main window that appears, click on the Import button to import the Electrum signing key you downloaded.Once it has been imported, double-click on the key to open its properties, and set its trust level to Full.Then, you can just double click inside Finder on the Electrum signature for the corresponding binary to start GPG Keychain verification which will inform you about the result and whether the signature and binary are good or not.The GPG Keychain message when signature verification
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