If in doubt, the packager can always post the sig on this email list
with PGP signature :-)-O

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On 2016-12-05 23:47, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 09:02:54AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, there is this one:
>>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.2.2/LyX-222-Bundle-3.exe.sig
>>
>> JMarc,
>>
>>   Perhaps Windows users will use that to check for modification when they
>> download a new version.
> 
> I feel obligated to warn that the .sig file can only be used to verify
> that the Windows binary that a user downloads is the same one that the
> release manager uploaded. We currently have no way for Windows files to
> verify that the binary is the same one that the Windows packager
> created.
> 
> For all non-Windows files, the .sig files can be used to verify that the
> files that a user downloads are the exact same that the packagers
> created.
> 
> Scott
> 


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