what is that .sig file

[Alexander Dalloz]

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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